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The History of the 
Broadway Tabernacle Church 




EXTERIOR OF PRESENT TABERNACLE 
Thirty-fourth Street and Broadway 



THE HISTORY 

OF THE 

BROADWAY TABERNACLE 
CHURCH 

FROM ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1840 

TO THE CLOSE OF 1900, 

INCLUDING FACTORS 

INFLUENCING ITS 

FORMATION 

By / 
SUSAN HAYES WARD 



New York 
1901 



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Two Copies Received 

JUL. 24 1901 

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Introductory Note 

THIS volume marks the last goal in the celebration of 
the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Broadway Taber- 
nacle. When the celebration committee came together for the 
first time, the pastor outlined before them his scheme for a 
suitable observance of the occasion and proposed, among 
chief permanent results to be desired, a printed History of 
the Church. Behind it lay a great past, whose memorials 
ought to be gathered up, before they slipped from the 
knowledge of living men, and placed on record for the gen- 
erations to come. One of the senior members of the church, 
Mrs. Chas. Abernethy, adding another proof of the love and 
devotion of many years in the Tabernacle, both on her own 
part and that of her lamented husband, came forward with a 
gift so generous as to insure the publication. The History 
covers a period of sixty years, and a few months more, in 
order to bring it up to the beginning of the twentieth century. 
The author, a former member of this church, has done her 
work with genuine enthusiasm ; and if any errors or inequali- 
ties appear, they are due to the limited time which was 
allowed for preparation, and not to indifference to the im- 
portance of thorough investigation nor lack of energy in its 
pursuance. 

By the Church History Committee. 

New York, June i, 1901. 



Contents 



Appendix 



PAGE 



The Old New England Way ix 

Chronological Record ......... xi 

CHAPTER 

I. Hinderances to Congregationalism . . . . i 

II. Dr. Finney's Work in New York 15 

III. The Founding of the Church 32 

1 IV. The First Pastorate • 51 

V. The Second Pastor, Joseph P. Thompson ... 72 

VI. From the Old to the New Tabernacle .... 93 
VII. The Third Pastor, William M. Taylor . . . .119 

VIII. The Fourth and Fifth Pastorates 151 

IX. Church Activities 165 

X. The Sixtieth Anniversary 196 



A. Plan of Union, 1801 223 

B. Broadway Tabernacle Church Principles and Rules, 1836 224 

C. Articles of Christian Faith and Church Government, 1840 226 

D. Preamble and Resolution Concerning Charities, 1841 . 229 

E. Articles of Faith and Covenant, 1846 230 

F. Resolutions as to Absentees, 185 1 and 1853 . . .232 

G. Conditions of Membership of Society, 1855 . . . 233 
H. Publications by Dr. J. P. Thompson 234 



Contents 

PAGE 

I. Some Appreciations of Dr. Thompson 237 

J. Publications of Dr. William M. Taylor .... 239 

Dr. Taylor's Resignation, 1892 241 

Acceptance of Dr. Taylor's Resignation, 1892 . . . 242 

Admission of Members, etc., 1901 243 

Qffieers of Church and Society 249 

Chronological List of Members 257 

Summary of Additions and Removals 329 



K. 



M. 



Illustrations 



Exterior of Present Tabernacle 



in Anniversary Week 



Interior of First Tabernacle 

David Hale . 

Samuel Pitts . 

Rev. Edward W. Andrews 

Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D.D., LL 

Audience Room of Present Tabernacle 

Memorial Tablet to Dr. Thompson 

Rev. William M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D. 

Memorial Tablet to Dr. Taylor 

Rev. Henry A. Stimson, D.D. 

Chapel of Present Tabernacle 

Parlors of Present Tabernacle 

Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, D.D. 



The Old New England Way 

// the Reader shall demand how far this way of Church- 
proceeding receives approbation by any common concurrence 
amongst us: / shall plainly and punctually express my self 
in a word of truth, in these following points, viz. 

Visible Saints are the only true and meet matter, whereof 
a visible Church should be gathered, and confederation is 
the form. 

The Church as Totum essentiale, is, and may be, before 
Officers. 

There is no Presbyteriall Church {i.e. A Church made up 
of the Elders of many Congregations appointed Classickwise, 
to rule all those Congregations) in the N. T. 

A Church Congregationall is the first subject of the keys. 

Each Congregation compleatly constituted of all Officers, 
hath sufficient power in her self, to exercise the power of the 
keyes, and all Church discipline, in all the censures thereof. 

Ordination is not before election. 

There ought to be no ordination of a Minister at large, 
Namely such as should make him Pastour without a People. 

The election of the people hath an instrumentall causall 
vertue under Christ, to give an outward call unto an Officer. 

Ordination is only a solemn installing of an Officer into 
the Office, unto which he was formerly called. 

Children of such, who are members of Congregations, 
ought only to be baptized. 

The consent of the people gives a causall vertue to the 
compleating of the sentence of excommunication. 

Whilst the Church remains a true Church of Christ, it doth 
not loose this power, nor can it lawfully be taken away. 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

Consociation of Churches should be used, as occasion doth 
require. 

Such consociations and Synods have allowance to counsell 
and admonish other churches as the case may require. 

And if they grow obstinate in errour or sinful miscarriages, 
they should renounce the right hand of fellowship with them. 

But they have no power to excommunicate. 

Nor do their constitutions bind formaliter and juridice. 

In all these I have leave to prof esse the joint judgement 
of all the Elders upon the river: Of New-haven, Guilford, Mil- 
ford, Stratford, Fairfield; and of most of the Elders of the 
Churches in the Bay, to whom I did send in particular, and 
did receive approbation from them, under their hands: Of 
the rest {to whom I could not send) I cannot so affirm; but 
this I can say, That at a common meeting, / was desired by 
them all, to publish what now I do. 

Thomas Hooker. 
1645 






Chronological Record 

1829. October 13. Union Presbyterian Church organized. 
Rev. Charles G. Finney held revival services with it 

during the winter. 

1830. Spring. One hundred and three converts joined Union 

Presbyterian Church. First Free Presbyterian 
Church formed. 
June 27. Rev. Joel Parker began ministering to the 
church. 

183 1. July. Plan for a large audience-room for Mr. Finney 

agitated. 
December 31. Congregational Church organized. Rev. 
Joseph Harrison, pastor. 

1832. February 14. Second Free Presbyterian Church organ- 

ized. Chatham Street Theatre leased for its use. 
April 23. Chatham Street Chapel dedicated. 
Mr. Finney accepts call to the church. 
Cholera summer. 
October 5. Mr. Finney installed and stricken with 

cholera. 

1833. January 20. Protracted meeting begun in Chatham 

Street Chapel. 
April 26. Mr. Finney resumed work after illness. 
October 2. New York City Anti-Slavery Society 

. formed at the chapel, and attacked by mob. 
November 2. Rev. Joel Parker dismissed to minister to 

church in New Orleans. 
Mr. Finney abroad for his health. Rev. John Ingersoll, 

co-pastor during his absence. 

1834. Summer. Mob riots. 

November 8. Mr. Finney resumed his ministerial work. 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

1835. February. Mr. Finney appointed Professor of Theol- 

ogy at Oberlin, O. 

March 21. Accepts appointment. 

May. Building of Broadway Tabernacle begun. 

December. Great fire in New York. Mr. Finney re- 
turned from Oberlin for winter preaching. 

1836. March 2. Mr. Finney dismissed from Presbytery. 
March 13. Sixth Free Church organized as Broadway 

Tabernacle (Congregational) Church, 120 members. 
April. Tabernacle Building completed. 
April 10. Mr. Finney installed over Tabernacle Church. 

1837. January 18. Convention in Broadway Tabernacle of 

Congregational ministers and churches of Southern 
New York. Nineteen ministers present. 

Spring. Mr. Finney resigned because of ill-health. 

June. Rev. George Duffield, acting pastor. 

September. Rev. Jacob Helffenstein accepted call to 
First Free Church (Dey Street). 

1838. April. First Free Presbyterian Church united with 

Broadway Tabernacle. 

September. Letters of resignation offered by both pas- 
tors, accepted by church. 

October 4. Call given to Mr. Parker. 

November 17. Mr. Parker began ministrations. 

December 19. Mr. Tappan cited to appear before ses- 
sion on charge of disorderly and unchristian con- 
duct. 

December 21. Anti-Slavery Society formed in Taber- 
nacle. Constitution signed by more than eighty mem- 
bers of church. 

1839. January 19. Session excluded Mr. Tappan from com- 

munion of the church for " contumacy." 
January 21. Church meeting called by Mr. Hale for 

consideration of Mr. Tappan's case. 
" Facts and Reasonings " published. 
February 11. Mr. Tappan appealed to Presbytery. Ap- 
peal not sustained. 



Chronological Record 

1839. March 4. Appealed to General Assembly. 

May 27. General Assembly sustained appeal and re- 
versed sentence of Session and decision of Presby- 
tery. 

October 8. Rev. Joel Parker received into Third Pres- 
bytery. 

November 6. Mr. Parker's installation. 

1840. June. Mr. Parker resigned. Tabernacle advertised for 

sale. Mortgage foreclosed. 

July 2. Mr. David Hale bought the building at chan- 
cery sale for $34,363.74. Church meeting same even- 
ing. Mr. Hale invited members to form a Congre- 
gational Church. 

July 6. Last meeting of joint church held in lecture- 
room. Company of men remain to form a Congrega- 
tional Church. Committee appointed. 

September 3. Church publicly recognized; seventy- 
nine members. Articles of faith, etc., adopted. 

September 14. Sunday-school organized. 

Deacons appointed, and permanent rules adopted. 

October 30. Board of Trustees appointed. Rev. E. W. 
Andrews of West Hartford, Conn., called. 

1841. Mr. Andrews began service first Sunday of January. 
January 4. Society incorporated. 

January 31. Installation of pastor. 

March 1. At annual meeting* reported accessions by 

letter, 37 ; on profession, 3 ; losses, o. Membership, 

107. 
November 8. Lease of building signed. 
Sunday-school more than fifty teachers, seven Bible 

classes, more than two hundred and thirty scholars. 

Four other Sunday-schools superintended and largely 

conducted by Tabernacle members. 
Revival services, aided by Rev. Edward N. Kirk. 

* Until 1872, the annual meetings were in February or March, and reported 
statistics of previous year up to date. 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

1842. February 28. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

87; by profession, 15. Losses: by letter, 7; by 
death, 1. Membership, 201. 

1843. February 27. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

63; on profession, 59. Losses: by letter, 33; by 
death, 2. Membership, 288. 

1844. February 27. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

58; by profession, 37. Losses: by letter, 29; by 

death, 4. Membership, 350. 
February 26. Monthly concert established. Samuel 

Pitts appointed Steward. 
March. New organ purchased by Organ Association. 
August 6. Rev. E. W. Andrews resigned. 
August 14. Council for dismission of pastor. 
December 10. Rev. Joseph P. Thompson called. 
December 31. Call declined. 
Monthly concert and Missionary Society established in 

connection with Sunday-school. Women of church 

support home missionary in the West. 

1845. February 25. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

19; by profession, 17. Losses: by letter, 29; by 

death, 2; excommunicated, 1. Membership, 354. 
Tabernacle property bought by Society. Mortgage, 

$18,000. Building repaired, painted, carpeted. 
March. Call to Rev. J. P. Thompson renewed, accepted. 
April 15. Mr. Thompson installed. 
October 28. Committee appointed to revise articles of 

faith. 

1846. February 24. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

38; by profession, 8. Losses: by letter, 38; by 
death, 1 ; excommunicated, 1. Membership, 360. 
Revised articles of faith, form of admission, and per- 
manent rules adopted. 
Sunday afternoon service omitted, in summer. History 
of church, articles of faith, covenant and catalogue 
of church published. Revival. 



Chronological Record 

1847. March 9. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 36; 

by profession, 50. Losses: by letter, 40; by death, 

2 ; fellowship withdrawn from, 2. Membership, 402. 

Contributions, $911.80. 
March 16. Congregational Association of New York 

and Brooklyn organized at Tabernacle. 
New entrance to lecture-room made. Sunday afternoon 

service kept up through the year. 

1848. February 29. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

23; by profession, 19. Losses: by letter, 32; by 
death, 3. Membership, 409. 
March 14. Resolution as to absentees adopted. 

1849. February 27. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

25; by profession, 12. Losses: by letter, 39; by 

death, 7. Membership, 400. Choir leader, George 

Andrews, resigns. 
January 9. Christian Psalmist adopted as hymn-book 

in place of Church Psalmist. 
Resolutions adopted upon David Hale's death by church, 

society, and trustees. 

1850. February 26. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

22; by profession, 17. Losses: by letter, 24; by 

death, 10; by excommunication, 1. Membership, 

404. Contributions, $1,240.98. 
William P. Bradbury, leader of choir. List of members 

purged of absentees. 
August 26. Council to ordain evangelists. 
Tabernacle refitted, carpeted, and painted. 

1851. February 25. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

24; by profession, 5. Losses: by letter, 39; by 
death, 3. Membership, 391. Contributions, $921.03. 

March 31. Property purchased for permanent en- 
trance at cost of $20,250. 

May 13. Rule relating to absentees adopted. 

Rev. Luther Gulick ordained as missionary to the Pa- 
cific. 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

185 i. December 30. Rule in regard to letters of dismission 
added to standing rules and Committee on Absentees 
appointed. 

1852. March 1. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 39; 

on profession, 24. Losses: by letter, 78; by death, 

7; fellowship withdrawn from, 5; excommunicated, 

2. Membership, 362. Contributions, $3,623.56. 
January 7.y. Mrs. Joseph P. Thompson died. 
Dr. Finney held revival services. 
March 9. Passage omitted from form of admission 

" Wo, wo," etc. 
Leave of absence granted pastor for a year from August 

or September. Deacon Pitts removed to Michigan. 
June 29. Principles of Discipline adopted. 
Volunteer Committee to solicit donations for the $50,000 

fund for building houses of worship in the West. 

Mortgage paid off. 

1853. March 1. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 19; 

on profession, 15. Losses: by letter, 40; by death, 
5 ; fellowship withdrawn from, 23 ; excommuni- 
cated, 2. Membership, 326. Contributions, $3,- 
931.68. 

April 26. Resolution in regard to withdrawing fellow- 
ship from absentees adopted. 

May 16. Voted to partition front entrance from Broad- 
way. 

Pastor's salary increased to $3,000. 

1854. February 27. Annual rneeting. Accessions: by letter, 

26. Losses: by letter, 32; by death, 8; fellowship 
withdrawn from, 14. Membership, 298. Contribu- 
tions, $5,149.67. 

May 31. Frederick S. Boyd engaged as sexton. 

Mr. Ensign, organist and valuable church member, left. 
Afternoon service discontinued in summer. Mr. 
George Andrews again choir leader. 

December 19. Conference of churches of New York and 
vicinity convened in Tabernacle. 



Chronological Record 

1855. February 27. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

15; by profession, 6. Losses: by letter, 43; by 
death, 2; fellowship withdrawn from, 5. Member- 
ship 265. Contributions, $3,728.26. 

January 20. Deacon Pitts died, mourned by the church. 

March 2. Rules as to qualifications of members of so- 
ciety adopted. 

April 8. Dr. Thompson's historical sermon, tenth anni- 
versary. 

July 2. Afternoon service given up. 

November 13. Trustees authorized to sell Tabernacle 
and provide site for new church. Pastor authorized 
to hold service up town part of each Sabbath. 

New manual printed. 

1856. February 26. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

20 ; by profession 11. Losses : by letter, 27 ; by death, 
2; fellowship withdrawn from, 6. Membership, 265. 
Congregation largest in the city. Contributions, 
$7,025. 
September 29. Church Committee licensed Brother Jo- 
seph Harris to preach. 

1857. February 24. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

27; on profession, 11. Losses: by letter, 24; by 
death, 1 ; fellowship withdrawn from, 8. Member- 
ship, 270. Contributions, $5,210.91. 

February 23. Sale of Tabernacle for $122,000 ratified 
by Society. 

April 6. New site approved and purchased. 

April 20. Building Committee appointed. 

April 26. Last service in Broadway Tabernacle. 

July 17. Plans for church accepted. 

Sabbath services held in City Assembly Rooms ; and in 
chapel of Home of the Friendless after October 23. 

December 25. Corner stone laid at Thirty-fourth Street 
and Broadway. 
1658. March 1. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 18; 
on profession, 4. Losses : by letter, 14 ; by death, 3 ; 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

fellowship withdrawn from, I. Membership, 274. 
Contributions, $2,585.73. 

1858. February 15. Voted to rent seats in new chapel for 

current expenses. Ladies' Sewing Society to furnish 

social rooms of chapel. 
May. Lecture-room of new chapel first occupied first 

Sabbath in this month. 
November. Sabbath Hymn Book adopted. 

1859. March 1. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 60; 

by profession, 41. Losses: by letter, 29; by death, 
4; fellowship withdrawn from, 5; excommunicated, 
1. Membership, 336. Contributions, $4,549.11. 

Ex parte council called by aggrieved members of Church 
of the Puritans. 

Ladies' prayer meeting established at Dr. Thompson's 
request, led by Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts (Caroline 
D.), Thursday afternoons. 

April 24. New House of Worship dedicated. 

Debt on building, $65,000. Service of plate for com- 
munion presented by Francis B. Nicol. Strangers' 
Committee appointed from Pitts Bible Class. Miss 
Marion McGregor (Mrs. Christopher), engaged as 
organist. 
i860. February 28. Annual meeting. Accessions : by letter, 
44; by confession, 9. Losses: by letter, 27; by 
death, 2; fellowship withdrawn from, 3; excom- 
municated, 1. Membership, 356. 

January. Rules of Society in relation to elections 
adopted. 

March 6. Changes in permanent rules adopted. 

March 19. New form for letters of dismission ordered. 

New manual with many changes in rules, form of ad- 
mission, and covenant. Pastor's salary raised to 
$4,000. 
1861. February 26. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 
39 ; on profession, 5. Losses : by letter, 30 ; by 
death, 3. Membership, 367. 



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Chronological Record 

1861. May 2. Second ex parte council called by members of 

Church of the Puritans. Council withdrew fellow- 
ship from that church, forty-one of whose members 
were recommended by council to Tabernacle. 

1862. February 26. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

102; on profession, 12. Losses: by letter, 22; by 
death, 7; fellowship withdrawn from, 3; excom- 
municated, 1. Membership, 448. 
Standing Committee appointed to take in charge Centre 
Street Mission. Some changes in covenant and form 
of admission. 

1863. February 24. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

38; by profession, 16. Losses: by letter, 30; by 
death, 5 ; fellowship withdrawn from, 1. Member- 
ship, 466. 
By free-will offering in February paid $25,000 of debt. 
Several collections for patriotic purposes ; $600 to aid 
Harlem church build its chapel. 

1864. March 1. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 35; 

by profession, 28. Losses: by letter, 22; by death, 
10; fellowship withdrawn from, 8; excommunicated, 
1. Membership, 488. 

On second Sabbath of March $40,000 subscribed and 
every claim on church property cancelled. 

Pastor visited Army of the Cumberland in May. 

At after-meeting held Sunday evening, June 26, $30,- 
000 subscribed to furnish a regiment for the Govern- 
ment. 

Prayer meeting of Ladies' Christian Union transferred 
to Tabernacle Wednesday mornings and united with 
weekly meeting led by Mrs. Roberts. Alterations in 
organ and choir at cost of $2,600. Pastor's salary in- 
creased to $5,000. Some changes in covenant and 
form of admission. 

November 16. Conference of churches to prepare for 
National Convention. 

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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

1865. February 28. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

39; by profession, 8. Losses: by letter, 32; by 
death, 5; excommunicated, 1. Membership, 497. 
Contributions about $10,000. 

March 8. Committee appointed to raise money and se- 
cure land for another Congregational Church and So- 
ciety up town. 

Thanksgiving service " for victories to our arms " in 
April. 

June 1. Public service in commemoration of President 
Lincoln. 

Collection plates presented by Mrs. F. B. Nicol in Sep- 
tember. 

December 11. " Memorial service for our fallen heroes." 

Pastor's salary increased to $6,000. Leave of absence 
for nine months with $2,500 allowance for travelling 
expenses. 

1866. February 27. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

33; by profession, 13. Losses: by letter, 29; by 
death, 6. Membership, 508. Contributions about 
$11,000. Only five left of those who organized the 
church. 
Woman's prayer meeting continued daily for three 
months, beginning with week of prayer. Professor 
Roswell D. Hitchcock and Professor Shedd supply 
pulpit. Pastor's salary raised to $8,000. Paid on 
mortgage $30,000. Mission Committee secured mis- 
sion chapel in Forty-eighth Street between Eighth 
and Ninth Avenues, and organized a Congregational 
Church, removing thither former mission school, cor- 
ner of Sixth Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street. New 
manual issued. Church Sunday-school obtained a 
piano and library of 700 volumes. 

1867. February 26. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

29; by profession, 22. Losses: by letter, 31; by 
death, 12. Membership, 516. Contributions, $16,000. 
. Pew rentals raised. 



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Chronological Record 

1868. February 25. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

38; by profession, 22. Losses: by letter, 33; by 
death, 8. Membership, 535. Contributions, $18,000. 
Subscribed for church debt, $2,670. Portrait of Dr. 
Thompson, painted by Carpenter, presented to so- 
ciety by Dr. Pierce of Rutgers Female College. James 
Smith, for many years trustee and treasurer of so- 
ciety, died July 3. Pews made free Sunday evenings. 

1869. March 3. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 37; 

by profession, 23. Losses: by letter, 33; by death, 
6; excommunicated, I. Membership, 555. Contri- 
butions, $11,689.29. 

May 18. Rev. Absalom Peters, a stanch friend of the 
church and in his later years a member, died. 

November 10. Seth W. Benedict, trustee and active 
promoter of church interests, died. 

November 24. Pastor's salary fixed at $9,000. 

Bethany work begun. Ladies' Home Missionary Society 
organized. Church work organized in departments. 
Lost by removal, W. W. Fessenden, an active officer 
of the church. 

1870. March 2. Annual meeting. Accessions : by letter ,23 ; 

by profession, 25. Losses: by letter, 43; by death, 
5; fellowship withdrawn, 1. Membership, 554. 
Contributions, $11,689.29. 
Sexton's salary advanced to $2,000. 

1871. March 1. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 19; 

by profession, 14. Losses: by letter, 34; by death, 
8. Membership, 547. Contributions, $25,126.01. 

October 22. Dr. Thompson resigned. 

Society passed resolutions of sorrow and sympathy and 
voted a gift of $30,000 to retiring pastor which was 
increased by $25,000 from members of church and 
congregation. One thousand three hundred and fifty- 
seven additions to church during Dr. Thompson's 
pastorate. 

November 8. Council for dismission of pastor. 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

1871. November 15. Relations dissolved. Dismissed from 

church by letter to Dom Kirche, Berlin, Prussia. 
November 22. Rev. William M. Taylor called. Dr. 

Thompson delegated to visit Mr. Taylor and urge 

call. 
December 29. Call accepted. 

1872. February 28. Annual meeting. Accessions: by letter, 

38; by profession, 24. Losses: by letter, 25; by 
death, 6; excommunicated, 1. Membership, 578. 
Contributions, $33,952.28. Annual meeting of church 
changed to the business meeting before the first Sab- 
bath in January. 

December 30.* Annual meeting. Accessions: by let- 
ter, 20; by profession, 9; letter returned, 1. Losses: 
by letter, 19 ; by death, 4. Membership, 585. Contri- 
butions, $15,213.59. 

March 1. Mr. Taylor arrived. Began pastoral work 
second Sabbath of this month. 

April 9. Installation by council. 

Salary $10,000. A twenty-year endowment policy on Dr. 
Taylor's life secured of $25,000, annual premium to 
be paid by Society. Rent of house paid also. Ex- 
tensive alterations in church building during summer. 
Bethany Christian Association formed. Rev. Robert 
W. Haskins left Bethany. Rev. Rufus S. Underwood 
succeeded him as missionary pastor and Frederick 
Link as superintendent of Sunday-school. 

Band of Cheerful Workers for Foreign Missions organ- 
ized in Mrs. Austin Abbott's Sunday-school class. 

1873. Accessions: by letter, 90; by profession, 46. Losses: 

by letter, 29; by death, 8. Membership, 683. Con- 
tributions, $25,519.14. 
Henry C. Hall, deacon for ten years, died; also Mr. 
Lansing C. Moore, a tried friend of the Society. Lit- 
erary Society for young men organized. Pastor's 

* From this time on the statistics are made out at the close of the calendar 
year. 

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Chronological Record 

removal expenses paid and house furnished. Salary 
fixed at $12,000. Preaching service at Bethany, Sun- 
day mornings, in place of Sunday-school. 

1874. Accessions: by letter, 55; by profession, 39. Losses: 

by letter, 13; by death, 12; by discipline, 1. Mem- 
bership, 751. Contributions, $19,939.53. 

Among the deaths specially noted is that of William Al- 
len, May 25, " who fulfilled in a remarkable degree 
all the kindly offices of a Christian brother ; " Myron 
J. Frisbie, an efficient helper, October 13, and Mrs. 
Marshall O. Roberts, the founder of the Ladies' 
Christian Association (Young Women's Christian 
Association), December 12. 

Barnabas Root, a native African, examined by Council 
November 5, ordained as missionary, November 7. 

Mr. Samuel Colcord, member of the church, ordained 
by Council December 9, as evangelist. Pastor had 
three months summer vacation. In place of other 
mortgages, one bond and mortgage for $58,000 sub- 
stituted. Reading-room opened in Bethany. 

1875. Accessions: by letter, 74; by profession, 85. Losses: 

by letter, 37; by death, 9; by discipline, I. Mem- 
bership, 863. Contributions, $18,512.32. 
Suit relating to expenses for widening Broadway de- 
cided adversely. Assessment $13,000 with interest, 
amounting to $18,300. Pastor's salary increased $500. 
Church debt reduced $4,000. Thomas T. Berry, 
member of church committee and superintendent of 
mission school, died January 30. Cheerful Workers 
adopt Miss Carrie E. Bush as their missionary. Rev. 
William Plested, pastor of Bethany. Cemetery Asso- 
ciation of Bethany Mission formed. 

1876. Accessions: by letter, 60; by profession, 90. Losses: 

by letter, 29 ; by death, 14. Membership, 970. Con- 
tributions, $16,545.53. Special resolution on death 
of Dr. Thomas Ritter, for thirty-one years a mem- 
ber of the church. Turrets rebuilt and other outside 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

work done at cost of $3,000. Fifty thousand dollars 
paid toward debt. 

1877. Accessions: by letter, 56; by profession, 43. Losses: 

dismissed to Bethany church, 90; other letters, 19; 
by death, 11; fellowship withdrawn, 12; excom- 
municated, 1. Membership, 936. Contributions, 
$18,558.75. 

February 28. Plan for organization of Bethany Church 
adopted. 

April 13. Bethany Church organized. Rev. William 
Plested, pastor. 

Tabernacle closed two and a half months in summer for 
repairs. Pastor's salary increased $500. Debt re- 
duced $8,000. Charity Committee of Sunday-school 
organized by Dr. Henry D. Ranney. 

1878. Accessions: by letter, 48; by profession, 25. Losses:., 

by letter, 31 ; by death, 10. Membership, 968. Con- 
tributions, $13,972.36. 

March 29. Mr. Charles Abernethy, for ten years a trus- 
tee, died. 

Debt reduced $12,000. Rev. Willard Scott succeeds Mr. 
Plested as pastor at Bethany Church. 

1879. Accessions: by letter, 52; by profession, 15. Losses: 

by letter, 30; deaths reported, 11. Membership, 993. 
Contributions, $18,034.14. Special resolutions on 
deaths of Deacon Henry Whittlesey and Dr. Joseph 
P. Thompson. 
December 1. Rev. Willard Scott left Bethany Church. 

1880. Accessions: by letter, 60; by profession, 21. Losses: 

by letter, 29; by death, 18; deaths not reported 
earlier, 18. Membership, 1,027. Contributions, $17,- 
293.11. The deaths of Robert L. Hall and Nathan- 
iel Fisher, twelve years trustee, specially noted in the 
report, also that of Dr. Bush, District Secretary of 
A. B. C. F. M., long associated with the Tabernacle 
though not a member. 

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1880. February I. Rev. Charles H. Burr assumed pastorate 

of Bethany Church. 
April 1. Bethany Secular Library established and 

opened through efforts of Dr. E. P. Hoyt. 
Four thousand dollars paid on bond and mortgage, and 

$2,500 extra to pastor for family travelling expenses. 

1881. Accessions: by letter, 47; by profession, 12. Losses: 

by letter, 37; deaths reported, 17. Membership, 
1,032. Contributions, $20,938.52. 

March 1 1. Abel K. Thompson, one of the founders of 
the church, died. 

Largest pew rentals ever received by the Society, $37,- 
880.40. Paid on bond and mortgage, $4,000. Ser- 
vice held Sunday and Monday, September 26 and 27, 
commemorating President James A. Garfield. Council 
held in Tabernacle to ordain William J. Peck, fellow 
member, as evangelist. Church recarpeted. Mothers' 
meeting started in Bethany. Dr. Taylor's salary 
raised to $16,000. 

1882. Accessions: by letter, 42; by profession, 15. Losses: 

by letter, 22; by death, 12; excommunicated, 1. 
Membership, 1,054. Contributions, $52,190.81, more 
than $30,000 being for Bethany Mission. 

Among deaths is noted that of Mrs. William H. Smith, 
March 11, a liberal helper in church work and mem- 
ber for twenty-one years, and Deacon William G. 
Lambert, December 24, one of the founders, and of 
the original board of deacons. 

March 12. More than $30,000 subscribed for building 
Bethany Church. 

March 13. Reception to Dr. Taylor to celebrate his 
tenth anniversary. More than 947 united with church 
during these ten years. 

Fresh air work begun in Bethany. " Helping Hand " 
organized by Mrs. L. M. Bates. 

1883. Accessions: by letter, 42; by profession, 19. Losses: 

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by letter, 22 ; by death, 8. Membership, 1,085. Con- 
tributions, $22,838.17. 

1883. February 15. Death of Dr. Lafayette Ranney, identi- 

fied with Bible class work in Sunday-school. 
Choir enlarged by second quartette. Indebtedness on 

Tabernacle property, $37,000 ; on account of Bethany, 

$16,000. 
March 11. Bethany Church dedicated. Additions to 

Bethany Church, 31. Membership, 158. Bethany 

Young People's Association organized. 
May 23. John D. Long ordained by council. 

1884. Accessions: by letter, 60; by profession, 22. Losses: 

by letter, 32; by death, 16. Membership, 1,119. 
Contributions, $28,098.63. Individual members con- 
tributed $40,000 for educational purposes. 
John Gray, for many years trustee and president of 
Board, removed from city. Hour of service changed 
from 10.30 a.m. to 11. Pastor absent three Sundays 
in December, collecting $21,537.58 for Parsonage 
Fund. About $4,000 of which contributed by Taber- 
nacle Church. Pews provided for Bethany Church 
mainly by generosity of John B. Gough. Member- 
ship, 177. 

1885. Accessions: by letter, 40; by profession, 19. Losses: 

by letter, 42; by death, 13; death prior to 1885, 5. 
Membership, 1,118. 

Mrs. William Taylor, active in Home Missionary So- 
ciety and Bethany, died November 23, and Deacon 
Thomas W. Whittemore, deacon for nearly twenty 
years, died July 23. Contributions, $22,328.56. 

February 1. Chinese Bible school begun. 

Three thousand dollars paid on floating debt. Mrs. 
Christopher, organist, resigned. Public reception and 
testimonial given to her. Succeeded by S. N. Pen- 
field. Dr. Taylor's Parsonage Fund completed, $27,- 
000. Tabernacle's contribution brought up to $5,000. 
Bethany Church membership, 193. 



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1886. Accessions: by letter, 40; by profession, 29. Losses: 

by letter, 24; by death, 13; excommunicated, 2. 
Membership, 1,148. Contributions, $33,277.56. De- 
partment of Missions and Charities abolished ; Board 
of Missions, a committee of three substituted. In 
place of Department of Strangers, Reception Com- 
mittee of one appointed. Committee of three ap- 
pointed for Chinese Bible school. Change in ad- 
ministration of Sunday-school. Bethany Church 
membership, 209. Payment of $5,000 completed to 
Presbyterian Hospital for bed in perpetuity. 

1887. Accessions: by letter, 38; by profession, 33. Losses: 

by letter, 30; by death, 12. Membership, 1,177. Mr. 
Caleb B. Knevals resigned charge of Sunday-school, 
held twenty-one years. Thirty-five thousand dollars 
raised in March, on debt. Secular school established 
for Chinese, Monday afternoons. Bed in Woman's 
Hospital given to church. Mr. Burr left Bethany 
Church after eight years of service. Membership 
more than doubled, 230. Bethany Church interior 
decorated. 

1888. Accessions: by letter, 58; by profession, 16. Losses: 

by letter, 39; by death, 7. Membership, 1,205. Con- 
tributions, $30,387. Young Men's Association or- 
ganized, also Ladies' Society for Missionary Intelli- 
gence. Rev. Spencer H. Bray secured as pastor of 
Bethany Church. Silas H. Paine Superintendent of 
Bethany Sunday-school. Boys' reading-room opened 
in Bethany; Christian Endeavor Society, 73 mem- 
bers. 

1889. Accessions: by letter, 38; by profession, 25. Losses: 

by letter, 40; by death, 15. Membership, 1,213. 
Contributions, $32,589.98. Bethany membership, 
257. Annual meeting of American Board held in 
Tabernacle October 18. Church fitted with electric 
lights. 



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1890. Church half a century old. Accessions: by letter, 35; 

by profession, 24. Losses : by letter, 37 ; by death, 
15. Membership, 1,220, highest number ever reached 
by Tabernacle Church. 

April 6. Forty united with church. 

Contributions, $38,931.25. Paid on Bethany debt, 
$2,500. R. A. Dorman became Sunday-school Super- 
intendent. Young Girls' Society for A. M. A. or- 
ganized. Bethany Church receives 26 new members. 

1891. Accessions: by letter, 26; by profession, 13. Losses: 

by letter, 54; by death, 16; fellowship withdrawn, 1. 
Membership, 1,189. Contributions, $41,881.82. 
Adult Bible class begun, Sunday mornings, conducted 
by Professor Hamlin. 

March 6. Church entertained Manhattan Conference. 

For the first time in twenty years Dr. Taylor laid aside 
from pulpit ministrations by illness. For the Camp 
Memorial church building, members of Broadway 
Tabernacle subscribed $7,264, one-third of the cost. 
A monthly church paper, Bethany Beacon, a Girls' 
Club, and a cooking class, all new Bethany enter- 
prises, started ; also Penny Provident Fund. 

1892. Accessions: by letter, 11; by profession, 1. Losses: 

by letter, 34; by death, 19. Membership, 1,148. 

Contributions, $29,175.72. 
July 28. William Henry Smith, senior deacon and 

leader in many Christian activities, died. 
October 2.J. Dr. Taylor, stricken with paralysis in the 

spring, after six months leave of absence, resigns. 
Church voted, November 2, to continue salary through 

the year. Dr. Taylor appointed pastor emeritus, 

stipend, $5,000. Mr. J. Winthrop Platner engaged 

for pastoral work. 

1893. Accessions: by letter, 46; by profession, 14. Losses: 

by letter, 64; by death, 26. Membership, 1, 1 18. 
Contributions, $29,674.65. 



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1893. February 20. Mrs. Atossa F. Whittemore, widow of 

Deacon Thomas Whittemore, an efficient church 
worker, died. 

March 20. Call of church accepted by Dr. Henry A. 
Stimson of St. Louis, Mo. Began duty April 5. 
Salary, $12,000. Moving expenses, $1,244.50, paid 
by society. 

Council called for October 31 ratifies Dr. Taylor's 
withdrawal from pastoral service, his retention as 
pastor emeritus and instals Dr. Stimson. Lecture- 
room carpeted and seated anew. New Laudes 
Domini adopted in place of Songs of the Sanctuary. 
Children's Day observed. Christian Endeavor (Oc- 
tober 1) and Junior Endeavor (November 8) socie- 
ties started. Society for Women's Work organized. 
Absentee list begun. Sunday-schools morning and 
afternoon. E. F. Tripp, church secretary. Bethany 
membership, 350. 

1894. Accessions: by letter, 30; by profession, 13. Losses: 

by letter, 84; deaths reported, 29; on absentee roll, 
196; fellowship withdrawn from, 4. Membership, 
851. Contributions, $30,187.15. Extra allowance to 
Dr. Stimson, $916.67, for rent. Relief Committee or- 
ganized, also pastor's Bible class and teachers' 
meeting. New pastor in Bethany Church, Rev. Fred- 
erick B. Richards. He starts various new enterprises : 
Boys' Brigade, Young Men's Institute, gymnasium. 
Bethany's membership of 312 includes 75 absentees. 

1895. Accessions: by letter, 31; by profession, 6. Restora- 

tions, 11. Losses: by letter, 47; by death, 18. Mem- 
bership, 833. Contributions, $25,942.07. Church visi- 
tor appointed. 

February 8. Dr. Taylor died. Funeral sermon by pas- 
tor, Sunday, February 10. Funeral service, Feb- 
ruary 12. Sermon by Dr. Storrs. Memorial service, 
February 17, in church. 

March 18. Kindergarten work at Bethany, opened. 



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Society for Women's Work takes in charge Bethany 
Sewing School, Helping Hand, and Kindergarten. 
Board of Missions reorganized under name of Beth- 
any Board. Bethany Church has 259 active members, 
35 non-resident. 

1896. Accessions: by letter, 13; by profession, 7 ; restored, 4. 

Losses: by letter, 118, of whom 66 to form Manhat- 
tan Congregational Church; by death, 9. Member- 
ship, 730. Contributions, $26,296.09. 

March 3. Mr. Frederick S. Boyd, sexton for forty-two 
years, died. 

April 19. Deacon Austin Abbott, whose second term 
as deacon had been over twenty-one years, died. 

April 8. Dr. Stimson resigned. Dismissed by Council 
April 28. Salary paid for ensuing year. First meet- 
ing of Manhattan-Brooklyn Conference held in Tab- 
ernacle. Ordination of Rev. N. Miller Pratt in Beth- 
any Church. 

1897. Accessions: by letter, 10; by profession, 8; restored, 2. 

Losses: by letter, 28 (of whom 13 to Manhattan 
Church); by death, 14; absentees, 10; excommuni- 
cated, 1. Membership, 697. Contributions, $20,- 
720.44. Rev. F. B. Richards, of Bethany, associate 
pastor of Tabernacle. Pastoral care of Bethany 
largely in Mr. Pratt's charge. 

1898. Accessions: by letter, 35; by profession, 16; restored, 

1. Losses: by letter, 24; by death, 9; absentee, 1. 
Membership, 723. Contributions, $23,995.71. Church 
and Society for Women's Work lost by death three 
active helpers — Mrs. Henry Hayes, Mrs. Henry C. 
Houghton, Mrs. John H. Washburn. 
Call to Rev. Charles E. Jefferson of Chelsea, Mass. Sal- 
ary, $10,000. Accepted February 10. Installation 
April 19. Rev. Frederick B. Richards resigned. 
Service of Song, Sunday afternoons, introduced, also 
class in Greek Testament Sunday morning, and study 
of present-day problems in the afternoon. Broadway 



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Tabernacle Tidings started in October. Bethany 
Church added 32 members. 

1899. Accessions: by letter, 47; by profession, 19. Losses: 

by letter, 19; by death, 14; fellowship withdrawn 
from, 5. Membership, 742. Contributions , $20,- 
327.79. 

Rev. Dr. A. H. Clapp, member for thirty-three years, 
died April 27. 

August 19. Deacon Charles L. Mead, member of this 
church fifteen years, died. 

Men's Association reorganized as Men's League. Num- 
bers of elected members of Church Committee raised 
from four to nine. Young Women's Club organized. 
Council held to ordain Rev. Stefano L. Testa. Watch 
Night observed. Church entertains conference of 
Woman's Boards of Missions. Kindergarten moved, 
through Miss Grace H. Dodge's interest, to 361 West 
Thirty-fourth Street. Society for Women's Work 
organized in Bethany. Bethany Church membership, 
340. 

1900. Accessions: by letter, 42; by profession, 10; restored, 

1. Losses: by letter, 31; by death, 13; fellowship 
withdrawn, 2; absentees, 31. Membership, 718. 
Contributions, $21,914.05. George D. Sweetser, who 
died August 7, for twenty-one years a member, left 
as a bequest to the church $20,000 for missionary 
purposes, and to Bethany $5,000. 
May 10. Manhattan-Brooklyn Conference met in Tab- 
ernacle. Pastor's assistant, Rev. G. Andrew Gordon. 

1 901. January 16-23. Celebration of the sixtieth anniversary 

of Tabernacle Church. 
April. Payment of floating debt of $31,500 as an Easter 
offering, and $1,100 contributed by two women of 
the church toward an endowment fund for pastoral 
work. 



The History 

of the 

Broadway Tabernacle Church 

CHAPTER I. 
HINDRANCES TO CONGREGATIONALISM. 

IN reviewing the history of the oldest American Congre- 
gational Church of New York City, the first fact that 
confronts us is the lamentable weakness of Congregational- 
ism, west of New England, during the first half of the nine- 
teenth century. Not only was it generally conceded that Con- 
gregationalism could not prosper outside of New England, 
but so unpopular was our church polity that when, in 1840, 
the plan was broached of reorganizing, upon a Congregational 
basis, the disbanded church that had borne the name of the 
Broadway Tabernacle, the statement was publicly made that 
not ten respectable families could be found in New York that 
would attend a Congregational church. 

To account for this weakness and unpopularity it will be 
necessary to recall certain differing phases of Congrega- 
tionalism in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and certain events 
in the history of Congregationalism beyond the limits of the 
Eastern States. 

The early settlers of Plymouth were Separatists, and the 
first Puritans of Massachusetts, though of the reform party 
within the Church of England before leaving their native 



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shores, inevitably became Separatists when they had estab- 
lished themselves in the New World. 

The Pilgrims had their church organization before leaving 
Holland; Elder Brewster went with them, and they expected 
their pastor soon to follow. But the Puritans of Salem, 
Church of England people though they were, began by elect- 
ing their own ministers, laying hands upon them in consecra- 
tion and prayer, with no other bishop than the ministers them- 
selves, nominating an elder and two deacons, while thirty se- 
lected persons were invited to form a church by adopting the 
confession and entering into the Christian covenant drawn up 
for them by the Rev. Francis Higginson : 

" We covenant with the Lord and one with another, and do bind our- 
selves in the presence of God, to walk together in all His ways, accord- 
ing as He is pleased to reveal Himself unto us in His blessed word of 
Truth." 

When, on an appointed day, this confession and covenant 
had been solemnly assented to by the chosen thirty, they consti- 
tuted the first Congregational church organized in America. 
The church then proceeded to install their two ministers, elder 
and deacons, and delegates from the church at Plymouth, 
though hindered by wind and weather, were not too late in 
arriving to give to the new church the right hand of fellow- 
ship. Thus the Congregational doctrines of the independence 
of the individual church and the fellowship of churches were 
maintained, from the founding of New England. 

The New England churches held from the outset that no 
one should enter into the communion of the Church who had 
not been born of the Spirit of God, and a statement of personal 
religious experience was required of each candidate for ad- 
mission to its communion. 

These early church founders were men of faith, of noble 
purpose, and high courage. Devotion to liberty in Church and 
State dominated their lives; and devotion to religion and to 
the preservation of the commonwealth they were founding re- 
quired, in their judgment, that no man should be made freeman 



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with right to vote in public affairs who was not a member of 
some church in the colony. This was but grafting on the new 
England the custom of the old ; but in old England infants en- 
tered the Church by baptism, and confirmation followed, almost 
inevitably in early youth. But rigid examinations and state- 
ments of personal experience of conversion debarred young 
people from church membership, and additions to the Church 
were few. 

In a generation or two a natural reaction from the intensity 
of religious fervor, which had driven the fathers from their 
homes into the wilderness, began to be manifest in their chil- 
dren. In 1643 on ly about a ninth of the Massachusetts colo- 
nists had become citizens. Thomas Prince says that " a little 
after 1660 there began to appear a decay, and this increased 
to 1670, when it grew very visible and threatening, and was 
generally complained of and bewailed bitterly by the pious 
among them, and yet much more to 1680, when but few of 
the first generation remained." 

As these children, born in the Church and baptized in in- 
fancy, grew to manhood, very few were admitted to the Lord's 
Supper, as the large majority made no profession of having 
experienced the new birth, but they desired baptism for their 
children. They were members of the Church but not in full 
communion. But the privilege of baptism which they sought 
for their infant children was so great that they were willing 
to " own the Covenant," as it was called ; that is, assent to 
the " doctrine of faith " and enter into a formal covenant 
with the Church to walk as became its members and submit 
to its discipline. This question of the Half-Way Covenant 
was discussed for years and voted on in association and 
synod. 

At first only such presented themselves to " own the Cove- 
nant " as were already, by baptism, in the Church ; but by 
the beginning of the eighteenth century, still more barriers to 
church membership were broken down, and " many ministers 
admitted all applicants of good moral character to the Covenant 
and granted them and their children baptism without ques- 
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tion as to whether the recipients were members by birth or 
not. This was a wide departure from the original Half- Way 
Covenant practice, and one which tended vastly more than 
that to cheapen the Gospel ordinances." * Some churches 
admitted to baptism any respectable person who would take 
the Covenant obligation, others baptized the children of all 
reputable baptized persons whether they owned the Covenant 
or not. By these lax methods of admission members partici- 
pated in church government who were not admitted to full 
communion. The colony of Newark, N. J., which was founded 
in 1666, was undertaken in part as a protest against the adop- 
tion of the Half-Way Covenant by Connecticut churches. 

Early in the eighteenth century ministers and associations 
began to realize the low state of religion in the Church itself, 
and the General Court of Connecticut directed Selectmen to 
distribute Bibles, catechisms, and other books to " prepare for 
the right attendance upon that great duty, the Lord's Supper." 

The Half- Way Covenant had taught the people that they 
could have acceptable relations with God without having evi- 
dence that their lives were renewed by His Spirit, and that 
performing religious duties would lead to spiritual renewal. 
It was even maintained that " the Lord's Supper is a convert- 
ing ordinance." Religion was respectable, and men were urged 
to the performance of its outward duties in order to become 
Christians. " Thus there grew up, in part at least, as the re- 
sult of the Half- Way Covenant, what was then called ' the 
new-fashioned divinity,' ' the Arminian scheme of justifica- 
tion by our own virtues.' " f 

Meanwhile conflicting tendencies in church government 
arose in the colonies. The conservative party in Massachusetts 
sought to strengthen the power of the ministerial and church 
associations and to restrain the individual minister and the 
local church ; but the movement for stricter ecclesiastical gov- 
ernment failed eventually in Massachusetts, though it met with 

* Williston Walker, Ph.D., The Creeds and Platforms of Congregational- 
ism, p. 279. 

f Albert E. Dunning, D.D., Congregationalists in America, pp. 238-240. 



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success in Connecticut, where consociations of churches and 
associations of ministers were formed in accordance with the 
civil law enacted in 1708, which favored a concentration of 
power and authoritative standing councils. These consocia- 
tions, which had much in common with presbyteries, retained 
their authority for nearly eighty years until 1780, when the 
statutes of the State of Connecticut were revised. From that 
date the authority of the consociation became more and more 
limited, and now the Presbyterian element has practically dis- 
appeared from the discipline of the Congregational churches of 
that State, and hardly a vestige of the old consociation sys- 
tem remains. 

When in the fourth and fifth decades of the eighteenth 
century the New England churches were roused from their 
lethargy by the preaching of Jonathan Edwards, Gilbert Ten- 
nent, George Whitefield, and others, the revival movement and 
methods were opposed and deplored by many ministers who 
were out of touch with religious fervor of any kind. The 
bitterness of their opposition led them in their own minds and 
in public speech to cheapen the value of the doctrines taught 
by the revival preachers. One natural result of the Great 
Awakening was to quicken theological thought and discussion. 
New teachers of divinity arose, developing new methods of 
justifying the ways of God to man. Bellamy and Hopkins 
followed Edwards as teachers of the ministry, each with his 
scheme of theology, and Emmons came after with his further 
modification of the Hopkinsian system. These all held the 
Christian doctrine in the main as the fathers had transmitted 
it to them, but each interpreted it in his own way. With these 
men and their successors the doctrines of Christianity were 
all-important. They rejoiced to grapple with metaphysical 
difficulties in their search after divine truth; but there were 
problems of life, practice, and politics which had to be solved 
in the troublous days of the latter half of that century, and 
many ministers cared little for the doctrines of the Gospel and 
much for civil liberty and a gospel of good works. 

At the very opening of the century with the removal of 
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Increase Mather from its presidency, Harvard College, the 
trusted training school of Massachusetts ministry, had broken 
away from conservative control, and in the course of years it 
became the stronghold of those who opposed the stricter Cal- 
vinistic tenets. It was a Harvard student, James Freeman, 
who made the first open break with the orthodoxy of the 
day, and, by his leading, King's Chapel became the first Uni- 
tarian, as it had been the first Episcopal, church in Boston. 
From that time on, the differences in the two schools within 
the Congregational body became more marked. Churches 
counted themselves " evangelical " that accepted the Assem- 
bly's Shorter Catechism; such churches usually encouraged 
revivals and labored by missionary effort for the conversion 
of men, while those of Unitarian tendencies called themselves 
" liberal." 

As the struggle went on, churches in the country towns and 
smaller cities generally kept their old faith, but all those of 
Boston, except two, became Unitarian. 

When in a local church, as frequently happened, the majority 
of the church remained orthodox while the parish became 
Unitarian, the property question heightened the quarrel, for 
the courts recognized the rights of the parish only, as a prop- 
erty holder. One hundred and twenty-six churches and 
parishes were torn asunder. In eighty-one of them three- 
fourths of the church remained evangelical, but the Unitarian 
one-fourth retained its hold upon the church property. 

The stricter organization of the churches of Connecticut en- 
abled them to put down any sporadic case of defection to 
Unitarianism ; hence liberal theology made very little head- 
way south of Massachusetts, and a somewhat natural distrust 
of the Congregational doctrine of the independence of the local 
church gained ground in Connecticut. Meanwhile, in Massa- 
chusetts, the orthodox churches and ministers were drawn 
closer together, and the present system of local conferences 
with a general State Association developed, giving the churches 
organization without limiting the power of any local church. 
Thus these orthodox churches, though weakened in numbers, 
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were strengthened and supported by the new ties that bound 
them together. 

And this trial of faith through which they had passed worked 
for the spiritual good of the evangelical churches, and renewed 
growth and religious awakening followed. Missionary socie- 
ties were formed in Connecticut and Massachusetts in 1798 
and 1799, to aid and found churches in the new settlements of 
our country. The American Home Missionary Society, or- 
ganized in 1826, to include the New York Domestic Mission- 
ary Society which had been four years in operation, founded 
churches, carrying on the work still farther West. The Ameri- 
can Tract and Education Societies were formed in 181 5, all 
for evangelizing work in the home land ; while the American 
Board of Commissioners to send missionaries to heathen lands 
commenced its work in 1810, all begun by Congregational en- 
terprise which had been stimulated by the opposition of the 
Unitarian party. 

The first English settlers on Long Island were New Eng- 
land Congregationalists. From 1640 they founded settlements, 
and in the latter part of the eighteenth and in the early dec- 
ades of the nineteenth century many of the churches founded 
by them were more truly Congregational than the established 
churches of Connecticut with their Presbyterian tendencies. 
Indeed, there was an organization of these " Strict Congre- 
gational " churches in Long Island, as well as in Connecticut, 
that differed from their sister churches in disapproving of the 
Half- Way Covenant and in maintaining the independence of 
the local church. 

There were also settlements of New Englanders along the 
Hudson River and elsewhere in New York, in which Congre- 
gational churches were organized at an early date; while in 
New Jersey, from the time when the Rev. Abraham Pierson 
brought his church with him from Connecticut to settle New- 
ark for conscience' sake, Congregational churches were formed 
which flourished for half a century. The Newark Colony in 
the spring of 1667 entered into an agreement, sixty-four per- 
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within our town upon Passaic River in the Province of New 
Jersey but such planters as are members of some or other of 
the Congregational churches ; " and they further agreed : 

" We shall with care and diligence provide for the maintenance of the 
purity of religion professed in the Congregational Churches." 

These churches were independent, comparatively remote 
from one another, in scattered settlements with no organization 
to bind them together. After about forty years, the first pres- 
bytery in America was organized in Philadelphia in 1705 or 
1706. This presbytery, says Dr. William B. Brown in his 
chapter on New Jersey in Punchard's " History of Congrega- 
tionalism," had at its organization but six or seven members, 
the majority of whom were Congregationalists. It was merely 
a " consociation " for twenty years until after the Synod of 
Philadelphia had been formed, to include with it three similar 
presbyteries, all without written constitution or established 
creed, or any form of discipline or authority over the indi- 
vidual churches. In fact, they were less Presbyterian than the 
Connecticut consociations, and the churches seeking fellow- 
ship naturally connected themselves with these presbyteries. 

But in 1729 the " Enabling Act," as it was called, was passed 
by the synod, recommending the Westminster Confession of 
Faith and the Book of Discipline to the churches, and seven 
years later " these standards were made obligatory not only 
upon the synod and presbyteries, but upon all the churches. 
The Presbyterian system was now complete, and the Congrega- 
tional churches were entangled in its meshes. But they were 
restless there, so that the next twenty years of American Pres- 
byterian history were years of contest and division." 

There had been a number of Scotch or Irish Presbyterian 
ministers settled over churches in New York, Philadelphia, or 
in the vicinity of these towns, whose influence was brought 
strongly to bear upon the building up of Presbyterian organi- 
zation. Connecticut, too, as has been intimated, saw that the 
independence of local churches in Massachusetts had made 
possible serious differences of faith among ministers and 
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churches; and, growing suspicious of Congregational liberty, 
she threw her influence, as neighbor and mother colony of 
New Jersey, in favor of Presbyterianism. Connecticut felt, 
and even Massachusetts seemed to feel, that independent 
churches could hardly be trusted with full freedom in a new 
country where neither consociation nor association was at hand 
to direct or counsel; so newly organized churches were ad- 
vised to join the nearest presbytery. The accord in faith be- 
tween the two systems was magnified, the differences in polity 
minimized, both by the presbytery which invited and the con- 
sociation which urged the amalgamation. Doubtless Con- 
necticut Congregationalists were drawn nearer to New York 
Presbyterians by their common dread of the encroachments of 
Episcopacy; and their fear that liberty, in new settlements, 
might degenerate into license was heightened by the horrors 
of French anarchy. 

But Congregationalists of New York and New Jersey, 
though they adopted the Presbyterian nomenclature, were 
jealous of their Congregational liberty, and they struggled hard 
to maintain it. Our denominational Year-Book for 1899 gives 
the names of twenty-seven churches in New York State or- 
ganized before 1800. These must have fought a good fight 
barely to keep alive, through the first thirty years of the nine- 
teenth century. We know this to have been the case with the 
little church in Chester, N. J., founded in 1740 (the only one 
now left to the New Jersey Association from that century), 
which joined in the protest made by a company of ministers 
and laymen who, in 1780, withdrew from the Presbytery of 
New York and the Synod of New York and Philadelphia. 

These stout old Puritans of New York and New Jersey 
formed a presbytery known, later, as the Associated Presbytery 
of Morris County. They declared : * 

" We think that the presbyterianism of the Church of Scotland and 
of the Synod of New York and Philadelphia, is not wholly founded on 
scripture ; but that it takes the power too much out of the hands of the 

* A Brief Account of the Associated Presbyteries, published 1796, pp. 9, 11. 

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brethren of the church and gives an unscriptural and an unreasonable 
power to the elders, etc." 

" We find the synod have made many rules, canons, or orders, which 
we think very inconsistent with the liberties of christian churches, which 
rules or orders now stand on their records: and we have found our- 
selves cramped and restrained by those rules, etc." 

In their " agreements " when organizing we read : 

" We agree that this presbytery as a body, shall never assume or 
claim any jurisdiction over the churches, etc." 
" The presbytery shall make no rules which shall be authoritative, 



This Associated Presbytery was divided, twelve years later, 
for the sake of convenience, and the Associated Westchester 
Presbytery was formed ; and a year later, in 1793, the North- 
ern Associated Presbytery in the State of New York was 
organized, encouraged thereto by the two previously formed 
and by the Association of Berkshire County in Massachusetts. 
One man alone, the Rev. John Spencer, licensed by this asso- 
ciation in 1800, gathered nearly all the churches in Oneida 
County, forming, between 1804 and 1816, about thirty churches 
on a Congregational basis. Yet another and fourth, the Sara- 
toga Associated Presbytery, was formed in 1807. At that 
date, these associations, Congregational bodies with a Pres- 
byterian name, were strong and increasing in strength. Be- 
fore 1 816 at least two hundred Congregational churches had 
been organized in New York, and, but for the unfortunate 
Plan of Union, unfortunate for both denominations, Congre- 
gationalism would doubtless have become the prevailing church 
polity in New York, Ohio, and other of the Middle States. 

When settlers began to pour into " Western New York " 
from Massachusetts and into the " Western Reserve " of Ohio 
from Connecticut, home missionaries were sent after them to 
organize churches in the new settlements. At first eight Con- 
necticut pastors were appointed by the General Association to 
visit, each for four months, the Western country; but after 
the Connecticut Missionary Society began to work in 1798 it 
sent out many men into the field. Missionaries were also sent 



Hindrances to Congregationalism 

from Massachusetts and New Hampshire by their local socie- 
ties. Before 1800 there were nineteen Congregational churches 
in Western New York and but four Presbyterian; and from 
1800 to 1815 there were sixty Congregational and eighteen 
Presbyterian churches, the missionaries being supported in the 
main by Congregational societies. 

As far back as 1766 there was a joint convention of the 
Synod of New York and Philadelphia and the General Asso- 
ciation of Connecticut. This met annually for a series of years 
until interrupted by the stirring events of the Revolution. 
After the war, when the General Association made overtures 
for closer union with the Presbyterians, a joint agreement was 
made in 1794 which allowed delegates from either body to 
attend the meetings of the other with all the rights of mem- 
bership. As both Presbyterians and Congregationalists had 
home missionaries laboring in the newly opened sections, 
though the latter were pushing the work far more vigorously 
than the former, it was thought that some plan of union might 
be devised, by which they might work harmoniously. Such a 
plan was agreed upon in 1801. This plan was intended to 
work with absolute fairness for the interests of both parties 
to the agreement, and for a few years it seemed so to do. 

The Plan of Union * allowed churches with pastors of the 
other denomination to conduct their affairs according to their 
own church polity, while the pastors kept their own affiliation 
with association or presbytery and referred their difficulties 
to them for advice or decision. Churches whose membership 
was made up of both denominations were advised to have a 
standing committee through whom all discipline was to be 
administered to members ; appeal being allowed a Presbyterian 
member to the presbytery and a Congregationalist to the body 
of church members, or to a council. These standing commit- 
tees could depute a member to attend presbytery with the same 
rights there as any ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church. 

With this tiny wedge a small opening was made which was 
enlarged by a later plan through which Congregational 

* See Appendix A. 



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churches and ministers, while still Congregational, were offi- 
cially brought into presbyteries. First, in 1806, the Albany 
Presbytery proposed to the Northern Associated Presbytery, 
that strong Congregational association and conference, that 
members of either body occasionally present at a meeting of 
the other should be invited to sit and act as corresponding 
members of the same. The next year the Synod of Albany 
admitted the Congregational churches of the region to be rep- 
resented by ministers and delegates with full rights of Presby- 
terian members at the meetings of the synod, always provided 
that while acting with the synod they use Presbyterian stand- 
ards of doctrine and government. The churches, feeling they 
were to reap the benefits of association with a highly organized 
body, adopted the plan blindly, expecting to retain their own 
polity; but soon they were transformed, in name if not in 
nature, and were reported in the minutes of the Presbyterian 
Church. Presbyteries were formed where there were but a 
handful of Presbyterians, and ministers and churches invited 
and urged to join them without giving up their connection with 
their own association. A majority vote in the membership of 
a church would carry it into the presbytery, but a unanimous 
vote was required for it to withdraw unless it had permission 
of presbytery. And while presbytery, synod, and General As- 
sembly were welcoming them with open arms, they were 
pushed out vigorously from the Congregational fold by Con- 
necticut and Massachusetts. The American Education So- 
ciety recommended " all young men who go from New 
England into the boundaries of the General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian Church to unite with the Presbyterians and not 
to hold on upon Congregationalism." The Home Missionary 
Societies did the same. They did not encourage their mission- 
aries to unite their newly formed churches into associations 
of their own, and Congregationalism, " west of Byram River," 
was hardly countenanced by orthodox New England. 

But the Congregational element in the Presbyterian Church 
was progressive, independent, and hard to assimilate. Their 
New England trained ministers were accused of heresies. 



Hindrances to Congregationalism 

Princeton and New Haven theology were not in accord. Mr. 
Finney, too, was preaching new doctrines and introducing new 
revival methods, and New School ideas were gaining ground 
through Congregational influence. The more conservative 
Presbyterians felt that Congregational churches ought to have 
no representatives in General Assembly. 

In carrying out the Plan of Union, Congregationalists and 
Presbyterians had joined forces in missionary effort. Both 
had worked through the American Board and the American 
Home Missionary Society. But Presbyterians of the Old 
School grew suspicious of the joint home missionary work 
and of the American Education Society. They were apt to 
supply men with a New School bias. 

After two or three years of struggle the Old School party, 
in 1837, carried the General Assembly, abrogated the Plan of 
Union, declared the Home Missionary and Education Societies 
" injurious to the peace and purity of the Presbyterian Church," 
and cut off four synods — the Western Reserve, Utica, Geneva, 
and Genesee — all made up of churches formed under the Plan 
of Union, and ordered the Philadelphia Presbytery dissolved. 

The following year the New School Presbyterian Church 
was organized. In church and humanitarian doctrines Con- 
gregational churches, formed under the Plan of Union, were 
in sympathy with New School Presbyterians. The latter con- 
tinued their missionary work through the societies organized 
by Congregationalists, and Congregational churches retained 
presbyterial relations in the exscinded synods. Many of those 
even of the Associated Presbyteries who had held out hereto- 
fore in opposing Old School doctrines and Presbyterian dis- 
cipline went over now to the New School church, and many 
Congregational churches and ministers, especially in Ohio, 
joined the new movement. It has been stated authoritatively 
that as many as 2,000 churches, originally Congregational, were, 
by the Plan of Union and these subsequent influences, swept 
into the Presbyterian fold. 

But there was yet left some Congregational leaven in the 

State of New York. In 1834, four years before this split in 

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the Church, the General Association of New York was formed. 
At that date there were one hundred and eight Congregational 
churches gathered into local New York associations, besides 
scattering ones that were not associated. The formation of 
this General Association gave a new impetus to the denomina- 
tion, and in 1840, the year that saw Broadway Tabernacle re- 
organized, there were one hundred and twenty-eight Congre- 
gational churches connected with eight district associations, 
besides fifteen that remained independent churches. 

But the Plan of Union still worked friction, particularly in 
the West. When the Convention called by the General Asso- 
ciation of Michigan met at Michigan City, Ind., July 30, 1846, 
Mr. David Hale, founder of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, 
a stout, clear-headed Congregationalist, was sent from this 
church as delegate. Of this meeting he wrote as follows : * 

" On the question of abrogating the Plan of Union there was perfect 
harmony. . . . The Western men called the Convention, and every 
man, whether from the West or the East, agreed that the plan of 1801 
ought to be abandoned and no new one formed. . . . 

" The history of the Union of 1801 proved to the Michigan City Con- 
vention that in its perversions it had been a fountain of discord, of evils 
great and multiplied, beyond farther endurance, and that one of three 
things must be done, viz. : this controversy must continue and endure, or 
Congregationalism must be abandoned and handed over to Presby- 
terianism, or a friendly and entire separation must be pronounced. We 
unanimously adopted the last alternative." 

Six years later, in 1852, when a general convention of 
Congregationalists of the United States was held at Albany, 
N. Y., this Plan of Union, which both denominations were 
now ready to repudiate, was formally set aside. 

* Dr. Joseph P. Thompson's Memoir of Davio. Hale, pp. 296, 300. 



CHAPTER II. 
DR. FINNEY'S WORK IN NEW YORK. 

The great revival movement which began with the conver- 
sion of Charles Grandison Finney continued for a series of 
years in New York City. Broadway Tabernacle was but one 
of many churches growing out of that movement. Mr. Fin- 
ney's imprint upon the church was clearly marked during its 
earlier years, so much so that no adequate history of the Tab- 
ernacle could be written without taking into account the won- 
derful work and personality of that prince of revival preachers. 

Mr. Finney was a native of Warren, Conn. He was born 
August 29, 1792. When not more than two years of age his 
parents moved to the wilderness of Oneida County, New 
York. There he was sent to a common school, summer and 
winter, until about fifteen or sixteen years of age, when he 
was considered capable of conducting such a school himself. 

His parents were not religious, and he enjoyed no religious 
privileges, saw few religious books, heard no intelligent preach- 
ing of the Gospel. Indeed, he seldom heard any sermon at 
all except from some itinerant expounder, ignorant and ridi- 
culed by his more critical and better instructed hearers. Just 
as the little community had built their meeting-house and set- 
tled a minister, his father moved still further into the wilds. 

In the course of a few years, when about twenty years old, 
Mr. Finney returned to Connecticut, where he had some oppor- 
tunity for study. He taught in New Jersey for a while, going 
back now and then to Connecticut for a season's study in the 
High School, until, when perhaps twenty-five or twenty-six 
years old (for Mr. Finney's * figures are not always to be 
trusted), at the solicitation of his parents, he returned to their 

* Memoirs of Rev. Charles G. Finney, written by himself. 

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home in Jefferson County, New York, and soon after entered, 
as a student, a law office in the town of Adams in that county. 

In Connecticut Mr. Finney had heard the old village preacher 
deliver his old manuscript sermons which he read in a mono- 
tone; and during his years in New Jersey he hardly heard a 
half dozen English sermons, as the preaching in the neighbor- 
hood of his school was in German. So when Mr. Finney went 
to Adams he had no definite knowledge of religious truth. 
Here for the first time he became interested in church services. 
He went to the weekly prayer meeting as often as his office 
duties would permit, listened to the prayers of good men with 
pleased attention, but puzzled all the while because they prayed 
to be revived without any apparent expectation of receiving 
an answer to their prayers. He led the church choir, taught 
the young people sacred music, and put himself under religious 
influences. His study of the law and its frequent references 
to the Mosaic Institutes led him to purchase a Bible, the first 
he had ever owned, which he read and studied. His pastor, 
the Rev. George W. Gale, who afterward founded the town 
of Galesburg, 111., with its college, girls' seminary, and acad- 
emy, was an Old School Presbyterian, versed in Princeton 
theology. His preaching and statements of doctrine drew Mr. 
Finney into discussions with the minister into which they both 
entered with zest, renewing their discussions frequently for 
two or three years. He criticised Mr. Gale's preaching with 
plainness and severity, asked for definitions of his theological 
terms, and with his lawyer's training, picked flaws in the min- 
ister's logic, pointing out the mystifications of his theology un- 
til the latter was impelled to warn young men of his parish 
to beware of Mr. Finney's heterodox influence. 

But, notwithstanding his doubts of the preacher's scheme of 
divinity, and of the church's faith, his belief in the truth of 
the Bible strengthened ; and its doctrines, as they came to him 
with freshness from his own original Bible study, he received 
intellectually until his mind was made up to begin a Christian 
life. His struggle with pride and shame and the final com- 
plete surrender of his will to the will of God he describes 
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graphically in his autobiography, as well as the marvellous bap- 
tism of the Holy Ghost that followed. 

" Without any expectation of it, without ever having the thought 
in my mind that there was any such thing for me, without any recol- 
lection that I had ever heard the thing mentioned by any person in the 
world, the Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner that seemed to 
go through me, body and soul. I could feel the impression, like a wave 
of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed, it seemed to 
come in waves and waves of liquid love; for I could not express it in 
any other way. It seemed like the very breath of God. I can recollect 
distinctly that it seemed to fan me, like immense wings. 

" No words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in 
my heart. I wept aloud with joy and love ; and I do not know but I 
should say, I literally bellowed out the unutterable gushings of my heart. 
These waves came over me, and over me, and over me, one after the 
other, until I recollect I cried out, ' I shall die if these waves con- 
tinue to pass over me.' I said, ' Lord, I cannot bear any more ; ' yet I 
had no fear of death." 

Like St. Paul, Jonathan Edwards, and William Tennent, he 
seemed to meet the Lord Jesus face to face, and by these spirit- 
ual experiences and rapture of emotion to be set apart, as they 
were, for special service as God's minister. He had said when 
he first realized that faith was not intellectual belief but volun- 
tary trust, while he prayed and trusted without realizing his 
heart was already changed, " If I am ever converted, I will 
preach the Gospel." The very next day after these ecstasies, he 
began, at once, the fulfilment of his vow. The lawyer with 
whom he had studied, the deacon who had retained him to 
plead his case in court that morning, were heartstricken with 
his first words and retired, the one to pray until he too was 
a convert, the other to settle his suit in a Christian manner. 
He had the impression, he says, that God wanted him to preach 
the Gospel, and that he must begin immediately. He seemed 
to know it without the possibility of doubt; and he felt un- 
willing to do anything else. Every person to whom he spoke 
that day was, soon afterward, converted. An impromptu con- 
ference meeting gathered in the evening, and the house was 
packed. Without waiting for any one to open the services Mr. 
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Finney arose and told the story of his conversion. With this 
his revival work began. Night by night the people gathered 
for conference and prayer, and the community of the town, 
reaching far into its outskirts, was powerfully moved, the re- 
vival going on all winter. Soon he visited his parents in Hen- 
derson, staying but a few days, and there the same results 
followed his words. His father and mother were among the 
first converts. 

In the spring he offered himself to the presbytery as a can- 
didate for the Gospel ministry. They urged upon him a theo- 
logical course in Princeton, which he declined. His pastor 
was then appointed to superintend his theological studies ; but 
the two were diametrically opposed to each other in theological 
thought. Mr. Gale urged the doctrine of original sin, of man's 
inability to comply with the Gospel terms. He taught, so Mr. 
Finney understood, that the Spirit of God acted directly upon 
the nature and substance of man's soul without any action of 
the will itself; that man was passive in regeneration and that 
Jesus literally paid the debt of the elect. He limited the atone- 
ment to the elect and held that men were free to all evil but 
not free to all good, and that God condemned them for the 
sinful nature they inherited. This old straw they threshed 
over and over again. Mr. Finney would go away discouraged, 
saying he could find none of these doctrines in the Bible, and 
a saintly old elder who believed in the Old School doctrines, 
but also in Mr. Finney, and who prayed for him daily as long 
as he lived, would go with him to his room, where till late in 
the evening they would pray together for more light and 
strength and faith. 

Notwithstanding his New School theology, after two years 
of study, Mr. Finney was licensed to preach by the presbytery, 
though he refused to surrender his judgment or reason to the 
teaching of his theological guide. It speaks well for both of 
these men that they remained warm friends, respecting and lov- 
ing each other through all their differences. Later Mr. Gale 
came around in many respects to his pupil's way of thinking. 

In ministerial practice, too, Mr. Finney differed from the 
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preachers about him. His training had been for the law, and 
he believed in the lawyer's practice of presenting his proposi- 
tions and repeating points and arguments over and over until 
he had persuaded and convinced his hearers of their truth. He 
refused to read his sermons, but persisted in arguing his case 
for an hour or more, frequently preaching an hour and a half, 
with irresistible force. The hearer all the time felt that Mr. 
Finney was talking to him personally rather than preaching 
before an audience. That was the usual effect upon his hearers. 
It was the effect he aimed at. He did not speak about sinners 
in the abstract, but he talked to the individual sinners before 
him. The simplicity of his manner and diction was in marked 
contrast with that of most preachers of his time. Their ser- 
mons were apt to degenerate into literary essays with fine writ- 
ing and classical illustrations. Mr. Finney, like our Lord, drew 
his illustrations from common every-day life ; he used the words 
of daily speech that all could understand ; his one aim was to 
persuade and convert men, and he meant to hold their atten- 
tion at all hazards. 

In March, 1824, he began work as a home missionary in the 
northern part of the county, having taken a commission for 
six months from a woman's missionary society in Oneida 
County. Revivals began wherever he went. The means used 
he enumerates : " preaching, prayer, and conference meetings, 
much private prayer, much personal conversation, and meetings 
for the instruction of earnest inquirers." * No other means 
were employed by him in this missionary work. 

To illustrate the simplicity of Mr. Finney's sermons, we are 
told that some one on being asked if he had heard the revivalist 
preach replied, " I have been to Mr. Finney's meeting. He 
doesn't preach; he only explains what other people preach." 
But his whole nature was simple, and he took no thought as 
to manner or style in public or private prayer, or pulpit utter- 
ances ; he merely went straight to his point, a habit he carried 
through life which gave rise to many popular stories about 
him. Mrs. Olive Thome Miller tells an incident which illus- 

* Finney's Memoirs of Charles G. Finney, p. 77. 
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trates this. Her mother, though not a trained singer, had a 
sweet and sympathetic voice most acceptable in the choir, and 
Mr. Finney set a high value upon music in church services. 
Perhaps the famous church choir of Oberlin, and Dr. Warner's 
magnificent gifts to Oberlin's musical department, may be 
traced to Dr. Finney's influence. However that may be, seeing 
one Sunday morning this lady seated in the audience at the 
Oberlin church, just as he was about to give out a hymn, he 
beckoned her with his finger, and, motioning toward the choir, 
called out, " Mary, Mary, come up here." In his " Memoirs " * 
he tells very simply of one of his prayers and its answer : " I 
had begun to need clothes and had once, not long before, spoken 
to the Lord about it, that my clothes were getting shabby, but 
it had not occurred to me again." The sequel hardly needs to 
be told. Some kind-hearted man who had attended his services 
and had recognized his need sent a tailor from a neighboring 
city to take his measure for a new suit. 

A marked feature of the revivals that followed Mr. Finney's 
labors was the prevailing spirit of prayer. He, and the Chris- 
tians who worked with him, felt the burden of souls, and 
prayed with intense fervor. He says : f 

" A spirit of importunity sometimes came upon me so that I would 
say to God that He had made a promise to answer prayer, and I could 
not, and would not be denied. I felt so certain He would hear me, and 
that faithfulness to His promises and to Himself rendered it impossible 
that He should not hear and answer, that frequently I found myself 
saying to Him, ' I hope Thou dost not think that I can be denied. I 
come with Thy faithful promises in my hand, and I cannot be denied.' 
I cannot tell how absurd unbelief looked to me, and how certain it was, 
in my mind, that God would answer prayer — those prayers that, from 
day to day, and from hour to hour, I found myself offering in such 
agony and faith." 

The more powerful outpouring of the Spirit of God for which 
he had agonized began in his visit to Western, in Oneida County. 
This was the beginning of a remarkable series known as the 
" Western revivals." Three thousand souls were numbered 

* P. 138. f Memoirs, p. 142. 



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among the converts within the limits of Oneida Presbytery. 
Large towns — Rome, Utica, Auburn, Troy — were included in 
this movement, which covered the years 1826 and 1827. Mr. 
Finney went from town to town, and in every place multitudes 
were gathered into the churches. Such a wonderful religious 
upheaval could not fail to provoke criticism. Some reports de- 
rogatory to Mr. Finney's doctrines and practices were circulated 
industriously at the East, and Dr. Lyman Beecher, and Mr. Net- 
tleton, the New England revivalist, opposed Mr. Finney and 
showed suspicion of his " new revival methods " in a convention 
held in New Lebanon, N. Y., for the sake of examining into 
this evangelistic work which had begun to attract the attention 
of all Christian leaders in the country. The charges, which ap- 
pear to have been brought in a friendly way, without acrimony, 
were not sustained or proven, and Mr. Finney continued his 
work with increasing success, going still farther afield. He vis- 
ited Wilmington, Del. ; Reading, Pa. ; and Philadelphia, spend- 
ing more than a year in the latter city, and growing more as- 
sured of his methods as God gave him success, and more con- 
fident of results. 

Up to this time he had not preached in New York. Although 
many earnest Christians were eager for him to begin work in 
the city, the ministers hesitated to ask him. It was Anson G. 
Phelps, the Christian layman and philanthropist, who, having 
learned that Mr. Finney had not been invited to any New York 
pulpit, hired a vacant church in Vandewater Street and urged 
him to come and preach there. Dr. Lansing, of Auburn, and 
Dr. Beman, of Troy, who had rejoiced in his labors in their 
own churches, accompanied him and remained with him for a 
week at Mr. Phelps's house, where a succession of prayer- 
meetings was held. As the church could be hired for only 
three months, before the time expired Mr. Phelps bought a 
house of worship in Prince Street, where a church was soon 
organized. 

The New York Evangelist, established about the time that 
Mr. Finney first appeared in New York, was devoted to the 
interests of evangelistic revival work, and maintained the prin- 



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ciples of the New School party, though this was some years 
before the division of the Presbyterian Church. In an issue of 
The Evangelist, May 29, 1830, appears a note on Mr. Finney's 
revival work. It states that the Union Presbyterian Church was 
organized October 13, 1829,* and goes on to say: 

" Soon afterwards Rev. C. G. Finney commenced a course of labor 
there which has continued until the present time. . . . From the re- 
sults of this revival one hundred and three persons have joined this 
church by profession a"nd forty-two by letter. Many have united with 
other churches. Probably more than two hundred have been hope- 
fully renewed by the power of the Holy Ghost. The work is still 
progressing." 

But little more than a month later another result of Mr. Fin- 
ney's work is noticed in the issue of June 20th : 

" A Hall has been hired in Thames Street, near Broadway, being a 
room formerly occupied by the Rev. Dr. Romeyn's church as a lecture 
room. It is conveniently fitted up and will contain about four hundred 
persons. Several people belonging to other churches have formed an 
association to worship in this place. An invitation has been given to 
the Rev. Joel Parker, of Rochester, New York, to become the minister. 
He has accepted the call and will commence his ministry in this city the 
next Lord's Day." 

Mr. Parker, it should be noted, had been an active worker 
with Mr. Finney in the " Western revivals." This church to 
which Mr. Parker was called became known as the First Free 
Presbyterian Church of New York, and was organized by Mr. 
Lewis Tappan, aided by his brother Arthur, Dr. James C. Bliss, 
and some others who wished to introduce new and more practical 
measures for the conversion of men. They upheld the theory, 
popular with the more active evangelistic workers of that period 
and not yet wholly out of date, that churches should be free to 
all, and that they should be planted where the population is 
densest. There was no rapid transit in those days ; horse cars 
were unknown, and church goers went to their Sabbath Day 
services on foot or by private conveyance. It seemed necessary 

• Mr. Finney gives the date of his first preaching in New York as 1830, but 
it could not have been later than August, 1829. 



Dr. Finney's Work in New York 

to these devoted brethren, the Christian Endeavorers of their 
day, to multiply churches, in order to accommodate the grow- 
ing population of the city. The cost of the work fell upon the 
few men who had both means and Christian enthusiasm. Mr. 
Arthur Tappan, whose princely generosity always equalled if 
it did not outrun his financial ability, gave the use of the 
Masonic Hall, of which he had the lease, until the term ex- 
pired and aided the enterprise materially in other ways. Seven 
of these churches were formed in the course of a few years 
in New York City, and great numbers of people were attracted 
to them and brought into their membership. 

Shortly after the formation of this church, Mr. Finney closed 
his meetings in New York City, and took up his evangelistic 
work in other towns in New York State and in New England, 
especially in Boston. During the eighteen months following 
Mr. Finney's departure, New York churches and ministers did 
much to promote a more earnest religious life in the city. Pro- 
tracted meetings were held in several churches lasting three or 
four days, and summer morning prayer-meetings at half-past 
five were frequent and well attended. Churches multiplied. A 
Congregational Church was organized, December, 1831, and on 
Tuesday, February 14, 1832, the Second Free Presbyterian 
Church of the city of New York was constituted with forty-one 
members, mostly colonists from the First Free Church under 
Rev. Joel Parker's care. Their first place of worship was 
Broadway Hall, just above Canal Street. Out of this Second 
Free Church, in the course of eight years, the present Broad- 
way Tabernacle Church was evolved. 

For ten years Mr. Finney had gone from place to place, labor- 
ing incessantly as an evangelist ; now with strength overstrained 
and with a strong desire to establish for his wife, three children, 
and himself a settled home, it is not surprising that he felt in- 
clined to listen to the suggestion that he should become the pas- 
tor of this new church. 

Six months before, July 23, 1831, The Evangelist had pub- 
lished an account of a plan for a large, substantial building in 
a central part of the city, to accommodate from 5,000 to 6,000 
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persons, with seats free and open to all ; three preaching ser- 
vices on the Lord's day, and one or two during the week ; the 
pulpit to be supplied by the different clergymen of the city, in 
turn, except occasionally by clergymen from abroad visiting in 
town. Such a building, the writer declared, was much needed 
as a place for the annual meetings of the various benevolent 
societies. These " May Meetings " brought many strangers to 
the city, and, for want of such a central house, many hundreds 
of Christians were debarred from attendance. This subject was 
offered for the consideration of business men, especially, who 
would be likely to see the need of some such accommodation 
as the resort of many strangers constantly visiting the city. 
The appeal closed, " I feel confident that there are many thou- 
sands in this city who are not professedly Christians who 
would contribute liberally toward this object if they had oppor- 
tunity." 

It was soon decided to secure, if possible, the lease of the 
Chatham Street Theatre; and a public meeting was held at 
which Mr. Arthur Tappan presided. Eight thousand dollars 
was subscribed, and Messrs. Lewis Tappan, William Green, 
Jr., and others associated in this enterprise, purchased the 
lease of the theatre for a period of ten years, and fitted it 
up as a place of worship for the Second Free Presbyterian 
Church. It would seat at least 2,000 persons, and Mr. Fin- 
ney accepted the call to become pastor of the church. The 
opening of this building, known for some years as the Chat- 
ham Street Chapel, and used for May Meetings and for anti- 
slavery gatherings, was an important occasion for those in- 
terested in the movement for bringing the church to the 
people and drawing them in to hear the gospel. The chapel 
was dedicated Monday, April 23, 1832, at half-past five in 
the morning, to allow business men and their employees to 
be present. From 1,000 to 2,000 attended the solemn ser- 
vices at that early hour. The second Sunday following, Mr. 
Finney preached morning and evening, administering the 
Lord's Supper in the afternoon, the First Free Church join- 
ing in the ordinance. Vast congregations attended during all 
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the exercises, and the speaker's voice — so the newspaper report 
rea( i — was distinctly heard in all parts of the house. 

At once revival work began, continuing through the spring 
and summer; but that was the trying cholera year, and the 
panic in New York sent vast crowds into the country, from 
70,000 to 100,000 people leaving the city. Mr. Finney re- 
mained at his post, not wishing to leave while the mortality 
was so great, especially in the vicinity of his own house, where 
he once counted five hearses drawn up at the same time at 
different doors within sight. After a few weeks' rest, late 
in the summer, he returned for his installation on the even- 
ing of October 5th ; but during the services he was taken ill. 
His next door neighbor, who was also seized with the cholera 
about the same time, died that night, but in three weeks Mr. 
Finney was well on the road to recovery, and, toward spring, 
he resumed his church work. For twenty evenings in succes- 
sion he preached, in addition to his Sunday services, and as 
a result of this faithful seed-sowing, five hundred converts 
were numbered, and a new colony set off, organized, Decem- 
ber 6th, as the Third Free Presbyterian Church. 

Mr. Finney himself describes the workers who were united 
in the Free Church of which he was pastor. Many of them 
were, later, gathered into the first organization of the Broad- 
way Tabernacle. He says of them: 

" The Church were a working, praying people. They were thor- 
oughly united, were well trained in regard to labors for the conversion 
of sinners, and were a most devoted and efficient church of Christ. 
They would go out into the highways and hedges, and bring people to 
hear preaching, whenever they were called upon to do so. Both men 
and women would undertake this work. When we wished to give 
notice of any extra meetings, little slips of paper, on which was printed 
an invitation to attend the services, would be carried from house to 
house, in every direction, by the members of the church; especially in 
that part of the city in which Chatham Street Chapel, as we called it, 
was located. . . . Our ladies were not afraid to go and gather in all 
classes from the neighborhood round about. . . . There were three 
rooms, connected with the front part of the theatre, long, large rooms, 
which were fitted up for prayer meetings and for a lecture room. . . . 
I instructed my church members to scatter themselves over the whole 

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house, and to keep their eyes open in regard to any that were seriously 
affected under preaching, for conversation and prayer. They were true 
to their teaching and were on the lookout at every meeting to see with 
whom the word of God was taking effect; and they had faith enough 
to dismiss their fears and to speak to any whom they saw to be affected 
by the Word. In this way the conversion of a great many souls was 
secured. They would invite them into those rooms, and there we could 
converse and pray with them, and thus gather up the results of every 
sermon. ... A more harmonious, prayerful, and efficient people I 
never knew than were the members of those free churches. They were 
not among the rich, although there were several men of property be- 
longing to them. In general they were gathered from the middle and 
lower classes of the people. This was what we aimed to accomplish, 
to preach the Gospel especially to the poor." * 

In its issue of November 2, 1833, The Evangelist stated in 
defending the " Free Church " system that the original com- 
pany of four families had been enlarged into three congrega- 
tions who had gathered already six hundred converts and put 
forward thirty of their young men to study for the ministry. 

In the autumn of 1834 Rev. Joel Parker, after having 
preached for some months in New Orleans, was dismissed 
from the First Free Presbyterian Church to accept a call to 
that city, where $40,000 had been subscribed to build a church 
if he would consent to occupy its pulpit. His farewell sermon 
was preached before an immense audience in Chatham Street 
Chapel. 

During the year 1834 Mr. Finney took a voyage for his 
health to the Mediterranean, and was absent until late autumn. 
While abroad, the mob riots of 1834 occurred in which Aboli- 
tion leaders and clergymen of anti-slavery sentiment were 
attacked, their houses beaten in, or otherwise injured, while 
many colored citizens had not only their houses wrecked, but 
a school and seven of their houses of worship destroyed or 
badly injured. Mr. Finney's anti-slavery sentiments were pro- 
nounced and well known, although before leaving home he 
had counselled his zealous friend and supporter, Rev. Joshua 
Leavitt, editor of The Evangelist, to hasten slowly along that 
good way. On Mr. Finney's return, at the communion service 

* Memoirs of Charles G. Finney, pp. 321-324. 
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at the chapel, November 3d, he invited to the communion pro- 
fessing Christians, but forbade slave-holders, not recognizing 
as Christians those who held men in slavery, and who claimed 
a right of property in the bodies and souls of their fellow- 
men. A slave-holder present said : " The preacher was rather 
hard upon me, but he was right." Mr. Finney said that he 
would not undertake to say all slave-holders were not Chris- 
tians, but, for one, he could not recognize men as such who 
trafficked in the bodies and souls of men.* Thus he placed 
himself squarely with the unpopular altruistic party. 

Owing to Mr. Leavitt's enthusiastic advocacy of anti-slavery 
sentiments, subscribers fell off so rapidly from his paper that 
he appealed to Mr. Finney for aid, and, December 5th, the 
preacher began that famous series of " Lectures on Revivals," 
which, when issued in a volume, had an enormous sale in 
both Europe and America. This series continued for many 
Friday evenings. Mr. Leavitt made copious notes and pre- 
pared careful abstracts of these lectures which he published, 
and their popularity brought up his subscription list once more. 

In February, 1835, Mr. Finney was appointed professor 
of theology in the new Collegiate Institute of Oberlin, which 
was about to establish a theological department. He accepted 
the appointment with the understanding that he was to con- 
tinue his preaching services in New York during the winter 
months. 

The following winter, 1835 and 1836, he was back again 
at Chatham Street Chapel, and he began another course of 
Friday evening lectures December 18th, which Mr. Leavitt 
also reported. But Mr. Finney had been growing more and 
more out of touch with the discipline of the Presbyterian 
Church and with the Old School doctrines. The Princeton 
Biblical Repertory called upon him vehemently to leave the 
Presbyterian Church, and when a Sixth Free Church was 
organized March 13, 1836, its constitution was largely 
Congregational (though the deacons were made trustees of 
the property, and the board, for the sake of being better 

* The Evangelist, November 8, 1834. 
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comprehended by the public, was denominated a session), 
and Mr. Finney accompanied that portion of his church 
that organized it as their pastor. The Rev. Charles Fitch, 
pastor of the Free Church of Hartford, preached on that occa- 
sion and read the names of those who had obtained letters 
of dismission to constitute the new church, one hundred and 
eighteen in number. He also read the declaration of Prin- 
ciples, Rules, Confession of Faith, and Covenant * which had 
been agreed on, to which they gave their public assent, and 
then pronounced them a church, the Broadway Tabernacle 
Church. A prayer and anthem closed the services. 

The Tabernacle from which the church took its name was 
situated on the east side of Broadway, between Worth, now 
known as Anthony Street, and Catharine Lane. The building, 
modified and enlarged, is now occupied by the firm of Messrs. 
James H. Dunham & Co. It was one hundred feet square, 
one hundred feet back from Broadway. Its entrance on Broad- 
way, about twenty-five feet wide, in the middle of the block, 
was secured by a lease of two lots in front of the edifice, and 
the rent of the double building over these nearly met the ex- 
pense. This entrance, extending east one hundred feet to the 
small yard in front of the building, when not in use, was closed 
with iron gates swinging in from the street. The Tabernacle 
stood on four lots of ground, one of which was purchased, the 
others hired from the estate of Peter Lorillard. It would seat 
comfortably about 2,500 persons ; thus a great audience-room 
was secured in the heart of the city, yet removed from the 
noise of traffic and travel. The whole cost of land purchased 
and building, with entrance, was $66,500. The men who con- 
tributed the most for its erection were Mr. William Green, Jr., 
who paid $5,000 and lent $25,000; and Mr. Isaac M. Dimond, 
who contributed the same sum and lent $20,000, which was 
never refunded. Other subscriptions amounted to $6,000 ; and 
$5,500 was secured by bond and mortgage. The builder was 
Mr. Joseph Ditto. Upon Mr. Dimond and Mr. Finney de- 
volved almost the whole charge of superintending the contracts 

* See Appendix B. 



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Dr. Finney's Work in New York 

and the building. Of the two pictures extant of the interior 
of this great audience-room, that in the Memoir of David Hale 
is probably the earlier. 

The acoustic properties of this building were unusually 
good. The seats were arranged in a circular fashion and wide 
galleries with eight tiers of seats extended the entire circuit. 
The orchestra and choir occupied the space back of the pul- 
pit, a stairway running up from the floor to the gallery in 
which the choir was seated, and, under the stairway, to the 
left, a mysterious passageway led to the pastor's study, Bible 
and infant class-rooms, and other departments. The offici- 
ating clergyman usually came from the pastor's study by a 
nearer way on the right of the pulpit. 

This building, begun in May, 1835, and finished April, 1836, 
was largely planned by Mr. Finney. He says: 

" The men that built the Tabernacle in Broadway, and the leading 
members who formed the church there, built it with the understanding 
that I should be its pastor, and they formed a Congregational Church. 
I then took my dismission from the presbytery and became pastor of 
that Congregational Church. . . . The plan of the interior of the 
house was my own. I had observed the defects of churches in regard 
to sound; and was sure that I could easily speak to a much larger 
congregation than any house would hold, that I had ever seen. An 
architect was consulted, and I gave him my plan. But he objected to 
it that it would not appear well and feared that it would injure his 
reputation to build a church with such an interior as that. I told him 
that, if he would not build it on that plan, he was not the man to 
superintend its construction at all. It was finally built in accordance 
with my ideas, and it was a most commodious and comfortable place 
to speak in. . . . 

" When the Tabernacle was in the process of completion, its walls be- 
ing up and the roof on, a story was set in circulation that it was going 
to be an amalgamation church in which colored and white people were 
to be compelled to sit promiscuously over the house. Such was the 
state of the public mind in New York at that time that this report 
created a great excitement and somebody set the building on fire. The 
firemen were in such a state of mind that they refused to put it out, 
and left the interior and roof to be consumed. However, the gentlemen 
who had undertaken to build it went forward and completed it. . . . 

" While in New York I had many applications from young men to 

take them as students in theology. I, however, had too much on my 

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hands to undertake such a work. But the brethren who built the 
Tabernacle had this in view, and prepared a room under the choir 
which we expected to use for prayer-meetings but more especially for a 
theological lecture room. The number of applications had been so 
large that I had made up my mind to deliver a course of theological 
lectures in that room each year and let such students as chose attend 
them gratuitously." * 

But all these fine schemes were never carried out, and Mr. 
Finney only occupied the pulpit of the big Tabernacle he had 
planned during the following winter, that of 1836 and 1837. 
The double care was too great a strain upon his health; and 
the demands of Oberlin upon his time and strength grew more 
importunate. His naive confession, " I felt a great difficulty 
in giving up that admirable place for preaching the Gospel, 
where such crowds were gathered within sound of my voice," f 
can well be believed, for Mr. Finney, above all things else, was 
a preacher. During that last winter his religious experiences 
led him to adopt those views of Christian perfection which 
later, taken in conjunction with its New School teachings and 
its radical anti-slavery principles, made Oberlin for many years 
obnoxious to very many orthodox clergymen and ecclesiastical 
bodies. He was counted a fanatic by his foes, a religious en- 
thusiast by his friends; but his revival sermons continued to 
be blessed to multitudes. How these sermons were prepared 
he tells as follows : 

" When I first began to preach and for some twelve years of my 
earliest ministry I wrote not a word ; and was most commonly obliged 
to preach without any preparation whatever, except what I got in 
prayer. ... I almost always got my subjects on my knees in 
prayer, and it has been a common experience with me upon receiving a 
subject from the Holy Spirit to have it make so strong an impression on 
my mind as to make me tremble so that I could with difficulty write. 
When subjects are thus given me that seem to go through me, body 
and soul, I can in a few moments make up a skeleton that shall enable 
me to retain the view presented by the Spirit, and I find that such 
sermons always tell with great power upon the people." t 

* Memoirs of Rev. Charles G. Finney, pp. 325, 326, 328, 332. 
t /foV., p. 334. % Ibid., pp. 95, 96. 



Dr. Finney's Work in New York 

In the account which the Rev. Dr. Porter of Farmington gave 
of the first revival in that place, which began in 1793 under 
the preaching of young Dr. Griffin, he says of his sermons : 

" There were certain leading topics such as the radical defect of the 
best doings of the impenitent, the duty of immediate repentance, the 
freeness of evangelical offers, and the natural ability of men to accept 
them, and the consistency of all these with the purposes of God, the 
election of the heirs of life and the grace of God in their regeneration 
which he presented with a clearness and a force that were new. There 
was also a simplicity, a vividness, and an affection in his manner which 
gave the truth great access to the mind." 

In quoting this extract, Dr. Joshua Leavitt, who was a 
faithful attendant upon Dr. Finney's preaching and reported 
his sermons for two winters, adds this simple comment, " the 
very portrait of Finney." * 

* The Evangelist, May 2, 1835. 



CHAPTER III. 
THE FOUNDING OF THE CHURCH. 

The second quarter of the nineteenth century was a period 
of intense moral activity. With increasing numbers of people 
the question was not so much, Is this pleasant or popular or 
established custom? but, Is it right? A deeper sense of per- 
sonal responsibility seemed to prevail, and where any good, 
large or small, needed to be done, more people were ready to 
do it, and to do it at once. Cities were seething with new 
ideas, new principles, and the promulgators of any doctrine 
that disturbed the old order of things assumed, without ap- 
parent hesitancy, the attitude of defenders of their faith. 

The seven Free Churches of New York City were but a small 
proportion of the many new church enterprises that sprang 
up during the thirties. Few of them survived the disastrous 
consequences of the great fire of 1835 and the financial crash 
of 1837, but their members, while they held together, worked 
strenuously for others, and much good was accomplished. 
The variety of topics that interested active Christian men and 
women in those days is surprising. Naturally, anti-slavery 
and temperance were test questions. Society frowned upon 
their advocates and loaded them with obloquy ; but these advo- 
cates were nearly all, at the outset, active and avowed Chris- 
tian men and women. The New York City Anti-Slavery So- 
ciety was organized in Chatham Street Chapel, October, 1833, 
with a noble list of officers, while a mob battered at the doors 
before they were out of the building. A Young Men's Anti- 
Slavery Society was organized in Dr. Lansing's church, May, 
1834, and the Ladies' New York City Anti-Slavery Society, 
in the same church, with a hundred and sixty signatures to 
the constitution less than a year later; the venerable Dr. Em- 
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mons was called to the chair at the second anniversary of the 
American Anti-Slavery Society held in one of the Free 
Churches in 1835, and the Rev. Baron Stow offered prayer; 
while, in the Rev. Mr. Ludlow's church, ladies held a series 
of meetings to hear the famous Grimke sisters give " Exposi- 
tions of the System of Southern Slavery." The second an- 
niversary of the emancipation of West Indian slaves was cele- 
brated on August 1, 1837, by intelligent colored citizens in 
Broadway Tabernacle, the house being " very well filled," and 
" Solemn Religious Services " were held by the American Anti- 
Slavery Society over the death of Rev. E. P. Lovejoy, No- 
vember, 1837, in the same place. Hard names, however, were 
bandied about when the Chatham Street Chapel or Broadway 
Tabernacle was spoken of by pro-slavery advocates. During 
the riots of 1833, when negroes had been attacked in the chapel, 
the Courier and Enquirer of July 8th announced : 

" Another of those disgraceful negro outrages, &c, occurred last night 
at that common focus of pollution, Chatham Street Chapel." 

Temperance advocates fared not much better. When Mr. 
Arthur Tappan advertised for communion use a pure juice of 
the grape without any added alcoholic liquor the newspapers 
uttered a howl of derision. Dr. George B. Cheever was cow- 
hided, and tried for libel in a Massachusetts court, and suffered 
thirty days' imprisonment in the common jail because of his 
little temperance skit, "Enquire at Deacon Giles' Distillery." 
Yet the temperance leaven was so working that in 1834 
New York State was accredited with 2,500 temperance socie- 
ties, large and small, and temperance societies for young men 
flourished in the churches, while there was a great cold-water 
army of children in the Sunday-schools. 

Among the various organizations whose meetings were no- 
ticed by the religious press were a Manual Labor School So- 
ciety that had many enthusiastic supporters and the eloquent 
young Theodore D. Weld as its agent; a New York Society 
for the Improvement of Common Schools; a Young Ladies' 
Education Society of the Free Churches of New York; an 
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Anti-Tobacco Society; the American Seventh Commandment 
Society, and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Seventh Command- 
ment Society; the Ladies' Moral Reform Society; the Mag- 
dalen Society; New York Female Bethel Union, Female 
Branch of the New York City Tract Society, Maternal Asso- 
ciations in many churches, and the Oberlin Female Professor- 
ship Association, to support the Principal of the woman's de- 
partment and the women teachers. These and many more 
benevolent organizations were keeping the thoughts and hands 
of women, as well as men, busy, and their hearts warm, while 
Drs. Graham and Mussey were directing them to adopt a vege- 
table diet or to use unbolted flour, anti-slavery advocates were 
urging them to reject all products of slave labor, to drink their 
tea and coffee without sugar, or to use beet sugar; and Dr. 
Finney would have them dispense with coffee and tea altogether. 
These various organizations, and the great national benevolent 
societies for the advance of education and home and foreign 
missions, Bible, and tract societies, held their anniversaries 
in New York, and Broadway Tabernacle became famous, as 
did Chatham Street Chapel before it, for its great mass meet- 
ings, for which purpose these houses were rented to them. 

After Mr. Finney's departure in the spring of 1837, the Rev. 
George Duffield was engaged to act as pastor of the Tabernacle 
Church, though he was not installed. During this year Mr. 
David Hale, nephew of the patriot Nathan Hale and cousin of 
Mr. Nathan Hale of the Boston Advertiser, who had been look- 
ing for a church in the city where he could find congenial 
church work and companionship, began attending its services. 
Mr. Hale and Gerard Hallock, Esq., were, at that time, joint 
proprietors and editors of the Journal of Commerce, founded, 
about ten years before, as a Christian daily commercial news- 
paper. Mr. Hale was a man of strong will, able mind, posi- 
tive views, upright character, and a stanch upholder of Con- 
gregational church polity. Though his journal had been 
founded by Mr. Arthur Tappan, and had come into his hands 
through Mr. Lewis Tappan, he was not in sympathy with these 
brothers in their Abolition sentiments. Mr. Lewis Tappan was 
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The Founding of the Church 

at this time a fellow member of the Tabernacle Church, though 
Mr. Green and Mr. Dimond, its first generous helpers, had 
both left it. 

With no regular income, a free pew system, dependent upon 
Sunday collections, and burdened with mortgages upon their 
building, the church sank deeper and deeper into debt. The 
proposition was made that they invite the First Free Presby- 
terian Church, worshipping in Dey Street, to give up their 
house of worship and unite forces with the Tabernacle. At 
first Mr. Hale opposed this plan, fearing it would involve a 
sacrifice of the church's Congregational independence. But 
the burden became insupportable, and messages came from 
their creditors that entrance to the Tabernacle would be closed 
and gas shut off unless rents and gas bills were paid. The 
question of consolidation was considered once more, and ac- 
tion was taken as follows : * 

" A joint meeting of the Sessions and Trustees of the Tabernacle and 
Dey Street Churches, was held at the Tabernacle on Friday evening, 
Feb. 16th, 1838. Present from the Tabernacle, Messrs. Benedict, Colton, 
Tappan and Hutchinson — from the Dey street Church, Messrs. Bliss, 
Faxon, Colt, Clover, Joy and Hurd. Mr. Clover was called to the 
chair and J. F. Joy appointed Secretary. Meeting opened with prayer. 

" Dr. Bliss from the Committee appointed at the last meeting to draw 
up a plan of union, reported verbally that the Committee had not had 
an interview, and consequently had not agreed upon any plan, and 
moved that they be discharged from the further consideration of the 
subject, which was unanimously carried. 

" Mr. Benedict presented the proceedings of the Broadway Tabernacle 
Church and Congregation, being a statement of the terms on which 
they would consent to the proposed union, which, on motion, was 
considered by sections and unanimously approved, with the exception 
of the second, third, and fifth, which were amended. The proposals, 
thus amended, were unanimously approved and are as follows. 

" 1st. Each church to pay its debt for current expenses in full to 1st 
March. 

" 2d. Mr. Dimond to transfer his mortgage from the Tabernacle to 

the first Church, take a second mortgage on that property — be put in 

full possession and to relinquish all claim on the Tabernacle Church 

or its members, it being understood that he is, in addition to the above, 

* David Hale, Facts and Reasonings on Church Government. 

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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

to pay Mr. Baker $2500, for his claim of $4000, against the Dey street 
Church; and that, for the balance of his claim ($1500), Mr. Baker is to 
receive a mortgage upon the Tabernacle. 

" 3d. The churches to be united at the Tabernacle under the pastoral 
charge of Messrs. DufHeld and Helffenstein,* Mr. Duffield to receive 
his present salary, and Mr. Helffenstein's to be increased to $1700. 

" 4th. The two churches to be connected with the Third Presbytery of 
New York,f it being understood that such principles of the Congrega- 
tional order shall be engrafted as shall be approved by the United 
Churches. 

" 5th. If the two churches, previous to the first of March shall sub- 
scribe a sufficient sum in weekly or monthly payments to defray the 
expense of the United Church, and shall pay one month of the same 
in advance, then the seats in said Church shall remain free; but in 
case they fail to do this, the seats are to be sold or leased by direction 
of the Church — and the proportion of said expense shall be for the 
Dey street Church $2400, and the Tabernacle the balance. 

" On motion adjourned. 

" (Signed) J. F. Joy, Secretary." 

The two churches were united at the Tabernacle on April 
13, 1838, under the ministry of Messrs. Duffield and Helffen- 
stein. In the course of the following summer, Mr. Helffenstein 
having in contemplation the charge of a congregation in Penn- 
sylvania, some of the elders and members of the church, think- 
ing it might be for the interest of the church to have Mr. Duf- 
field also retire if they could unite the church in giving a call 
to the former pastor of the Dey Street church, Rev. Joel Parker, 
took measures to induce both pastors to resign at the same 
time. Mr. Duffield expressed a willingness to do so, but 
thought it his duty to refer the matter to the church. 

Two church meetings were held, Mr. Tappan presiding ; at 
the second, letters were read from both pastors, Mr. Helffen- 
stein giving an absolute and Mr. Duffield a qualified resig- 
nation. Both were accepted at once. Mr. Tappan thought 
the action precipitate in Mr. Duffield's case, and that he had 
been crowded into resigning by those members of the church 
and of the Session who had officiously interviewed both pas- 
* Mr. Duffield acting pastor of the Tabernacle, Mr. Helffenstein pastor of 
the Dey Street Church, 
f Italics as used by Mr. Hale. 

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tors in order to make way for Mr. Parker, then on a visit 
to New York. Mr. Tappan's attitude gave offence to these 
brethren, and in the two church meetings that followed a 
clergyman from the presbytery was brought in to preside, and, 
according to the arrangement of the ruling elders, Mr. Parker 
was nominated. 

Mr. Tappan opposed the nomination chiefly because of Mr. 
Parker's change of attitude toward slavery and Sabbath ob- 
servance. When in the First Free Church Mr. Parker with 
his session had disciplined two brethren of his church for 
journeying on Sunday; since then Mr. Parker had drawn on 
himself rebukes at Oberlin for Sunday travel. Also, while in 
New York, he had signed a declaration of sentiments against 
Colonization and in favor of immediate emancipation; but 
after going to New Orleans he had, at Alton, Mo., just be- 
fore the murder of Lovejoy, encouraged Mr. Lovejoy's oppo- 
nents by taking active part in a Colonization meeting, and by 
ridiculing the doctrine of immediate emancipation. He had 
said, besides, that it was unchristian to go into a community 
to excite it, and that he should refrain from speaking upon 
any subject calculated to disturb or agitate a people. Mr. 
Tappan declared that he did not wish to have his children 
brought up under a minister who, instead of preaching the 
law of God in his pulpit with fearlessness, was like a vane 
on the top of a sanctuary to indicate which way the wind blew. 

In spite of the minority opposition, a call was given and 
Mr. Parker became pastor of the church in the autumn of 
1838. Mr. Tappan, in a private call upon his new pastor, 
assured him that he should organize no opposition against him, 
he should attend the meetings of the church, and wish him 
success in his ministry, but added : " I shall hold up the sub- 
ject of slavery perpetually in the confident belief that the 
church is in a great error, but that it will eventually agree 
with me." 

Mr. Parker replied, " I shall do all I can to limit your 
influence in the church, because I think it a bad influence." 

Mr. Tappan responded, " I shall try to limit what I see 
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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

wrong in you, but not obstruct any of your efforts to do 
good." 

Under the old regime the church had frankly, avowedly 
adopted anti-slavery and total abstinence principles in the fol- 
lowing resolutions: 

" Resolved, That the using, holding, or trading in men as slaves is a 
sin in the sight of God, a great wrong to its subjects, and a great moral 
and political evil, inconsistent with a Christian profession, and that 
this church will admit no person to its communion who is known to be 
guilty of the same. 

" Resolved, That this church will admit no person to its membership 
who refuses assent to the Temperance pledge." 

An equivalent statement was prefixed to Manual No. I. of 
the church : 

" This church is established on Temperance and Anti-Slavery prin- 
ciples. No one is admitted who will not promise never to buy, sell, or 
hold a slave, nor any one who will not adopt the Temperance pledge." 

Now the session omitted the anti-slavery and temperance 
resolutions that had long been read at every communion to 
which candidates for admission to the church were expected 
to assent ; and Mr. Parker refused or omitted to read notices 
of anti-slavery gatherings. 

On December 15th, Mr. Tappan wrote to Mr. Parker: 

" A call has been signed by about thirty members of the church for 
a meeting of the brethren and sisters of the church who approve of 
anti-slavery principles, to form an anti-slavery society in the Tabernacle 
Church and Congregation. More than twenty more are ready to sign 
it. A society will be formed. I have not time to explain to you all the 
objects intended; but as I do not wish to do anything in the church 
without giving you early information of it, I will observe that the 
object of the society will be to aid in promoting the abolition of slavery 
in the United States, and especially to purify the Church at the North, 
as well as at the South, from all its pollutions by appeals to the hearts 
and consciences of men, by warning, entreaty, and earnest prayer and 
the application of the Bible doctrine of immediate repentance to the 
sin of slavery, etc., etc." 

After seventy-five persons had signed this call, the pastor 
(Sunday, December 16th) requested the members of the 



The Founding of the Church 

church to remain after the morning service and read a paper 
which, he said, originated with the session and had been 
adopted by them, disapproving of the formation of the pro- 
posed society. Mr. Tappan said, in response, that the measure 
was a peaceful and Christian one, and that, in exercise of their 
Christian liberty, the signers would feel it their duty to pro- 
ceed and form the society. 

The meeting was held in the lecture-room, Friday, Decem- 
ber 21, 1838, under difficulties. The use of the room had been 
granted by the proper authorities, but when the hour of meet- 
ing came the room was found locked. When it was at length 
opened by recognized authority and the meeting organized, 
they were interrupted and ordered from the room. In the 
" Proceedings " of this meeting, published soon afterward, we 
read: 

" It seems somewhat extraordinary that a hundred members of a 
church, including one elder, four or five deacons, and two members 
of the Board of Trustees, one of them being the chairman, should be 
denied the use of their own Lecture-room, and when it was not wanted 
for any other purpose." * 

The constitution was adopted at this meeting, more than 
eighty members of the church signing it or authorizing their 
names to be put to it ; only members of the Broadway Taber- 
nacle Church, or professors of religion belonging to the con- 
gregation or to its Sunday-schools or Bible classes, being 
eligible for membership. The officers were elected and an 
address to the church read and approved. 

Two days earlier, however, Mr. Tappan had been cited to 
appear before the session of the church on Tuesday evening, 
January 8, 1839, to answer to the charge of disorderly and un- 
christian conduct. It was naturally supposed that the animus 
of this was opposition to anti-slavery principles, but when the 
indictment was framed, it was found to be based on the accu- 
sations brought by Mr. Tappan against Mr. Parker at the 
church meeting in the September previous, when the nomina- 

* Proceedings of a meeting to form the Broadway Tabernacle Anti-Slavery 
Society, etc. New York, 1838. 

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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

tion of the Rev. Mr. Parker for the pastorate was under dis- 
cussion. The charge against him was slander. 

Mr. Tappan defended himself earnestly, and, at times, 
warmly, when he appeared before the session, and insisted 
upon his right to have a reporter with him who should take 
notes of the trial. This right the session denied. As Mr. 
Tappan continued to insist upon the presence of the reporter, 
he was condemned by the session for contumacy, without trial 
upon the charges brought, and excluded from the communion 
of the church until he should give evidence of repentance. 
Mr. Tappan appealed to the presbytery. Among his reasons 
for the appeal were the session's refusal to place important 
parts of the proceedings upon record, and to allow him to 
have an accurate record kept. The presbytery, after six meet- 
ings, voted, eleven to sustain Mr. Tappan's appeal, and four- 
teen against it. On March 4th the appellant addressed an ap-. 
peal to the General Assembly. 

It was well understood that the members of the session 
before which Mr. Tappan had been summoned were not all 
unprejudiced judges. One of them had openly asserted that 
something must be done to " put down " Mr. Tappan, be- 
cause, if it were not done, he would influence the minds of 
the church and " get a majority." In the General Assembly 
Rev. George Beecher warmly defended Mr. Tappan's rights. 
This was not long after Dr. Lyman Beecher had been tried 
for heresy. His son said: 

" When my father was arraigned for heresy — he knew that he had 
prejudiced judges; we had evidence enough that they were prejudiced 
from the statements that had been made. I was witness to the anxiety 
and depression and sleepless nights which he suffered. And when the 
trial came on, and the reporter, Mr. Stansbury, came into the court, 
my father went up to him and threw his arms around his neck and 
said ' Brother, I bless the Lord that you have come.' And I know the 
joy which this occasioned the family, and I know it was the means of 
saving his reputation. Under these circumstances, if the court had 
ruled out the reporter, I know how it would have come home to us. 
I know how the brother felt. I don't wonder at what he did. The 
wonder is that he did not do worse." 
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The Assembly's decision, made May 27, 1839, sustained Mr. 
Tappan's appeal. It ruled that the act of the session, exclud- 
ing the reporter, was of very questionable wisdom as well as 
a dangerous precedent ; that the session had been too precipi- 
tate and absolute, and, though granting that the appellant's 
resolute opposition might be construed as contumacious, it 
reversed the sentence of the session and the decision of the 
presbytery. 

It is not because this trial of Mr. Lewis Tappan is a cause 
celebre that it has been here introduced, but because it was 
this action of the session that brought Mr. David Hale to 
the point of denouncing the injustice of the Presbyterian dis- 
cipline as by them administered. Mr. Tappan himself here 
passes out of our history, though it should be recorded of 
him that he was actively concerned with the founding, in 1846, 
of one of the noblest of our Congregational benevolences, the 
American Missionary Association of which he was the first 
treasurer; he was also one of the Amistad Committee of 
Three appointed in 1839 and merged later into the Union 
Missionary Society (1841) which, in turn, united with the 
American Missionary Association upon its organization. 

The story of Mr. Hale's action in the affairs of Mr. Tap- 
pan is finely told by Dr. Joseph P. Thompson in his " Memoir 
of David Hale." * Mr. Hale was not an Abolitionist ; he had 
very little sympathy with Mr. Tappan's anti-slavery doctrines ; 
nor was he on very friendly terms with him; but he was a 
stout defender of the democracy of the Church and of liberty 
of speech; and he felt the injustice of the session's action. 
As the articles of agreement between the united churches 
allowed for occasional meetings of the whole church for busi- 
ness, Mr. Hale had a church meeting called, by public notice, 
" for the prayerful consideration of a case of discipline." 
This meeting was held January 21, 1839. He engaged his 
own reporter from the Journal of Commerce to be present, in 
order to take notes of the proceedings. After some discus- 
sion the church voted that the reporter might remain. Mr. 

* Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale , pp. 64-91. 
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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

Hale addressed the meeting, giving a review of the case pre- 
paratory to the offering of a resolution that three rules be 
added to the Permanent Rules of the church. These three rules 
provided that any member of the church should have a right 
to appeal from a decision of the session not only by way of 
the presbytery and synod to the General Assembly, but to 
the whole body of his brethren of the church; that there 
should be, at regular intervals, meetings in which any mem- 
ber of the church could introduce such propositions as he 
thought fit, and provision made for the calling of other such 
meetings when deemed necessary by church members; and 
that the records of the church should be kept by an appointed 
clerk and be open to all. 

There was much discussion during the progress of Mr. 
Hale's address, and many interruptions. In view of his propo- 
sitions he and his supporters were accused of fraud in agree- 
ing that the church should unite with the presbytery while 
striving, thus openly, to introduce Congregational practices. 
Mr. Hale made a vigorous defence, as he had not gone be- 
yond the stipulation to which the churches had agreed on 
uniting. In the records of the Third Presbytery of New 
York, N. S., Vol. I., p. 408, where an account of the union 
of the two churches is given, this proviso in regard to such 
principles of the Congregational order being engrafted as 
should be approved by the united churches is not entered, and 
brethren of the session openly declared that they had never 
intended to comply with it. When the question was put, a 
viva voce vote was taken, and the moderator, Mr. Parker, 
declared the vote to be in the negative, ignoring all calls for 
a count, and the meeting adjourned. 

The records of this meeting were issued by Mr. Hale as 
a broadside under the title " Facts and Reasonings on Church 
Government," and widely distributed. Some months later a 
second issue of " Facts and Reasonings " was published by 
him, giving some of the proceedings of the Annual Meeting 
of the church, April 1, 1839, and criticising the action the 
session had taken in the case of Mr. Tappan after the Gen- 

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Trustee 1840-1841, 1844-1849 



The Founding of the Church 

eral Assembly had sustained his appeal. In this sheet he 
states that about sixty members of the church had left under 
deep feelings of injury, that the large number of colored peo- 
ple which once filled a whole section of the house had with- 
drawn, the trustees having refused them leases of pews ex- 
cept on condition that if they allowed a white person to sit 
with them but once, the lease should be forfeited; their chil- 
dren were disobliged in Sabbath-school and their feelings 
ungenerously wounded ; the Sunday-school had dwindled, the 
church was running behind in meeting its indebtedness at the 
rate of $3,000 annually, the principal mortgage was in course 
of foreclosure, and a decree of sale actually issued. The Sab- 
bath evening lecture, the glory of the Tabernacle from Mr. 
Finney's day, " the great centre of its popularity, its useful- 
ness, its support, its success," established by order of the 
church immediately after the house was built, had been sup- 
pressed by the pastor, without authority, in order to drive 
the public into taking sittings. Mr. Hale further stated that 
the session had first claimed that the church had no right to 
control their proceedings, and, at the Annual Meeting, that 
they had no right to discuss them, and he proclaimed liberty 
as follows: 

" I love liberty in the churches. It is the bond of union and the 
spring of energy. I love it in all my fellow-men. I love it in myself 
and I mean to keep it. I was born free and I mean to die free. I 
received liberty, civil and religious, from my parents. I intend to leave 
it, if I can, to my children. I contributed largely to the state of things 
which enabled this usurpation to be set up over us, and I do not intend 
to rest until I have fairly and fully thrown on you the responsibility 
of maintaining your rights or giving them up." 

The following is an extract from a letter written by Mr. 
Hale to his son during this troublous period : * 

" We have very good preaching at the Tabernacle and in religious 
privileges are very happy, though I am having no small controversy 
with our pastor and elders in consequence of their ultra-Presbyterian 
measures, which have been quite tyrannical. I hope you will be an 
advocate everywhere of self-government on the part of the people, 
* Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, p. 94. 

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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

of democracy, of Congregationalism and the government of the people 
everywhere in church and state. Rich men will oppress, and a love of 
power and domination is too deeply fixed in us to be extirpated en- 
tirely by all the grace we get in the world." * 

Dr. Thompson gives a carefully studied account of Mr. 
Hale's relation to the Tabernacle Church, at this time, and of 
the influences that made him a pronounced Congregationalist. 
He says: 

" The effect of this discussion on the mind of Mr. Hale was to 
increase his jealousy of official prerogatives in a church, and his love 
for the free ecclesiastical institutions of New England. He began to 
study more attentively the Word of God with reference to the rudi- 
mental principles of church polity therein contained. Thus the provi- 
dence of God was preparing him to be, as it were, the parent of a new 
movement in the religious affairs of New York, and in the midst of 
ecclesiastical systems so long established here as to claim a sort of 
prescriptive right to the soil, to introduce successfully that simple and 
efficient system of church polity which has existed in New England 
from its first settlement, which is believed to have been substantially 
the system of the primitive churches, and which best secures Christian 
liberty and best develops Christian character. For such a movement 
there was needed a leader who could confront jealousy and bear the 
opposition even of brethren, who should be able to defend the cause 
he had espoused, one who could go forward, if need be, alone and in 
face of a virtual excommunication from Christian fellowship, to do 
what he felt to be important for the interests of truth and of Christ's 
kingdom." t 

But the unrest continued, and clouds thickened around the 
church. Mr. Green's mortgage was foreclosed and the Taber- 
nacle advertised to be sold at auction. The elders and trus- 
tees did all in their power to keep the building in the hands 
of the church. A committee was appointed from other Presby- 
terian churches to devise some plan by which the Tabernacle 
could be kept for Christian uses. It was understood that 
both the Catholics and the Universalists were desirous of buy- 
ing it. Dr. Thompson continues: 

" Meanwhile Mr. Hale had resolved in the last resort to buy the 
Tabernacle himself. He announced this intention to the trustees, re- 
* Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, p. 94. 



t Ibid., pp. 95, 96. 



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The Founding of the Church 

questing to be notified whenever their own plans were finally abandoned. 
The committee from other churches, believing it impossible to ex- 
tricate the Tabernacle Church from its embarrassments, approved Mr. 
Hale's plan and recommended him to make the purchase." 

In Dr. Thompson's historical discourse preached April 26, 
1857,* we rea d that just before the day of sale, four or 
five gentlemen met in a salesroom over the office of the 
Journal of Commerce, to devise some mode of preserving 
the Tabernacle for religious uses. They sat in the twilight 
upon tea-chests scattered about the room, and conferred awhile 
about the course to be taken, and then knelt together to ask 
God's guidance and blessing. Mr. David Hale, over whose 
office the meeting was held and who had called it together, 
offered to buy the building on his own responsibility if these 
his friends would aid him in raising funds for cash payments. 
In the heat of spiritual fervor, but not without deliberation, 
was the sacrifice made that gave this church its being. En- 
dorsed and substantially aided by his friends, Mr. Hale bought 
the Tabernacle property at a chancery sale, July 2, 1840, for 
$34,363.74, a little more than half its original cost. 

" On the evening of the day of the purchase, at a very full meeting 
of the Tabernacle Church (which then consisted of five or six hun- 
dred members), Mr. Hale informed them that he had bought the house 
for their benefit and that of the Christian public, and invited as many 
of the members as might be so disposed to unite with him in forming, 
in the Tabernacle, a Congregational church after the pattern of the 
primitive churches and the churches of New England. The officers of 
the church were unfavorable to this movement, and the result was that 
the members dispersed in various directions and the church became 
extinct." f 

It is on record, later, that this church applied to the Third 
Presbytery of New York (New School) to be dismissed to the 
care of the Second Presbytery (Old School), but there is no 
record of its having been received into the Second Presbytery. 

" Rev. Mr. Parker preached in the Tabernacle on the following Sab- 
bath, and on Monday evening, July 6th, the last meeting was held in 
* The Last Sabbath in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, 1857. 
\ Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, p. 98. 

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the lecture-room of the building. Notwithstanding the recommenda- 
tion of the officers of the church, that the members should unite with 
other Presbyterian churches, and the public declaration that ' not ten 
respectable families in New York would attend a Congregational 
church,' at the close of the meeting some thirty or forty brethren 
remained to take measures for organizing such a church, and having 
conversed together upon the importance of the step they proposed to 
take, they kneeled down and prayed, commending themselves and the 
church about to be formed to the guidance and care of God. A com- 
mittee was then appointed to take measures for the formation of a 
Congregational church [consisting of Messrs. David Hale, Lucius Field 
and Marcus Hurd]. The movement was entered into with much spirit; 
several brethren from other churches joined in it, and after having 
agreed upon some permanent principles of government, articles of 
faith, a covenant and a form of admission, the persons whose evidences 
of piety had been made mutually satisfactory upon examination en- 
tered into covenant with each other, and with God, and constituted 
themselves a church of the Lord Jesus Christ under the name of Broad- 
way Tabernacle Church. The articles of faith, form of admission and 
covenant were substantially those of Park Street Church, Boston. . . . 
" To meet the obligations which he had assumed in the purchase of 
the Tabernacle, Mr. Hale was obliged to borrow immediately between 
nine and ten thousand dollars. His private resources at that time were 
limited, and the receipts of the Journal of Commerce were absorbed 
in the payment of its debts. ' Money was worth two per cent, a month, 
and property and credit were at the lowest ebb.' It was in such circum- 
stances that Mr. Hale bought the Tabernacle, not as a matter of specu- 
lation — although he might have made several thousand dollars out of 
the transaction — but for the public good. He shouldered a burden 
which Christians of ample fortune would not touch with their little 
finger. The foresight with which he planned this purchase, the energy 
with which he put his plans in execution, the zeal and patience and 
self-denial with which he labored through evil report to secure an 
important public benefit, evinced a great and noble mind. He risked 
all his resources and all his credit upon this one enterprise, for the 
sake not of gain but of good. He made the venture in faith, and God 
prospered him. When he bought the Tabernacle he had but little un- 
incumbered property. It was necessary for him to negotiate a loan of 
$9,533-82, which according to the terms of sale was to be paid in cash, 
the balance being payable by his own notes or bond to be liquidated 
by quarter yearly payments of $1,250, with interest on the principal 
sum. In this he was assisted by several gentlemen of high commercial 
standing and Christian character; among whom were Messrs. Erastus 
C. Benedict, James Boerman, James Brown, Benjamin F. Butler, Will- 

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The Founding of the Church 

iam W. Chester, William B. Crosby, Henry Grinnell, Robert T. Haines, 
Jacob Little, Sidney E. Morse, Christopher R. Robert and A. R. Wet- 
more. The following recommendation was given by three of the gentle- 
men above-named, who were appointed by a meeting called for the 
purpose, to ' confer with Mr. Hale in regard to raising the money 
wanted.' After stating the terms of the loan they say, 

" ' The undersigned, believing it to be very important that the Taber- 
nacle should be placed in such a position that it may be used when 
wanted by the various benevolent societies of the day and for other 
moral and religious purposes, deem it but just and reasonable that 
Mr. Hale should be aided in this laudable object by the Christian 
public, and trust he will receive aid, to the extent asked. 

" ' Wm. W. Chester, 
" ' R. T. Haines, 
" ' C. R. Robert.' 

'" These gentlemen did not agree with Mr. Hale in his views of Con- 
gregationalism, but they appreciated his motives in purchasing the 
Tabernacle, and had confidence in his integrity. With this aid Mr. 
Hale felt sure that he could make the building pay for itself by public 
uses." * 

The church which had been formed on July 6th was pub- 
licly installed by an ecclesiastical council on September 3, 1840. 
The Council was composed of the following persons: 

From the Congregational Church in Philadelphia, Rev. 
John Todd. 

From the First Congregational Church in New Haven, Rev. 
Leonard Bacon and Deacon Nathan Whiting. 

From the Spring Street Presbyterian Church, Rev. William 
Patton, D.D., and Dr. Alonzo S. Ball. 

From the Mercer Street Presbyterian Church, Rev. Thomas 
H. Skinner, D.D. 

From the New York Congregational Church, Rev. George 
R. Haswell and Deacon Munson Lockwood. 

From the Providence Chapel Church, New York, Rev. Jo- 
seph Harrison and Deacon Dagraw. 

From the Mission Church, New York, Rev. Peter Lock- 
wood and Deacon Joseph Harris. 

From the High Street Church, Providence, R. I., Deacon 
Samuel Billings. 

•Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, pp. 97, 98, 99, 100. 

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Rev. John Marsh and Rev. George Bush of New York. 

Mr. David Hale and Mr. Marcus Hurd appeared before the 
Council in behalf of certain Christian brethren who wished to 
unite in Christian order and laid before the Council the Con- 
fession of Faith and form of Covenant. The certificates of 
the following persons from evangelical churches were handed 
in and found satisfactory: 



Mr. David Hale, 

Mrs. Lucy S. Hale, 

Mrs. Lydia Hale, 

Mr. Richard Hale, 

Mr. Samuel Pitts, 

Mrs. Rhoda P. Pitts, 

Mr. Marcus Hurd, 

Mrs. Fanny Hurd, 

Mr. Abel K. Thompson, 

Mr. Israel Minor, 

Mrs. Charlotte L. Minor, 

Mr. Jacob Brinkerhoff, 

Mrs. Mary G. Brinkerhoff, 

Mr. Silas C. Smith, 

Mrs. Mary Smith, 

Mr. David I. Huntington, 

Mrs. Emily S. Huntington, 

Miss Harriet S. Chamberlain, 

Mr. David Bourne, 

Mrs. Mary Gray, 

Mr. Francis N. Shaw, 

Mr. William M. Ray, 

Mr. Charles Roberts, 

Mr. Martin Uhler, 

Mr. Augustus Hustace, 

Mr. J. W. Fellows, 

Mrs. Mary A. Fellows, 

Mrs. Charlotte Crawford, 

Mrs. Catherine Potter, 



Mr. Hezekiah Whitney, 
Miss Rachel B. Sickles, 
Mr. John S. Savery, 
Mr. Benjamin Waterbury, 
Mr. Isaac E. Smith, 
Mr. George Williams, 
Mr. Samuel C. Hills, 
Mr. Hervey F. Lombard, 
Mr. Charles G. Weight, 
Miss Harriet Barry, 
Miss Jaquline Barry, 
Miss Lavinia Quackenboss, 
Mr. George Dryden, 
Mrs. Barbary Dryden, 
Miss Ann Hicks, 
Miss Catharine Alexander, 
Miss Elva James, 
Mrs. Eliza H. Bacon, 
Mr. Stephen Pritchard, 
Mr. Asa K. Allen, 
Miss Cordelia Halsey, 
Mrs. Sarah Probasco, 
Mrs. Susannah Orr, 
Miss Elizabeth A. Wicks, 
Mr. Alfred W. Smith, 
Mr. Leonard Crocker, 
Mrs. Penelope Crocker, 
Mr. William G. West, 
Mr. Orange A. Smith, 



The Founding of the Church 

Mr. John C. Cass, Mrs. Rebecca J. Parker, 

Mrs. Susan W. Cass, Mr. Alexander Patrick, 

Mr. William G. Lambert, Mrs. Louisa Patrick, 

Mr. Asa Parker, Mr. John W. Crane, 

Mr. James E. P. Dean. 

Articles for the regulation of the church were presented and 
approved. The sermon was preached by Mr. Bacon, the 
charge given by Mr. Todd, and the right hand of fellowship 
by Dr. Patton. 

On September 14th the church elected Brothers Samuel 
Pitts, John C. Cass, William G. Lambert, and Israel Minor to 
be deacons. 

The first meeting of the society was held in the lecture- 
room of Broadway Tabernacle, October 20, 1840, for organi- 
zation. Dr. Marcus Hurd was made chairman, Mr. A. K. 
Thompson, secretary, and six trustees were elected — Messrs. 
David Hale and Alonzo Calkins for one year; John C. Cass 
and William A. Coit for two years ; Albert Woodruff and F. 
S. Grant for three years. The incorporation of the society 
was recorded in the office of Register of the City and County 
of New York, in Liber II. of Religious Incorporations, page 
42, January 4, 1841, at 12 m. 

Thus the present organization of the Broadway Tabernacle 
Church and Society was successfully launched. 

Mr. Hale's account of these transactions, written to his son, 
is as follows: 

" I look upon the purchase of the Tabernacle as an era in religious 
policy in all the country south of New England. We shall go for pure 
Congregationalism in all its simplicity. The story of the matter was 
on this wise. The Tabernacle was advertised for sale under a decree of 
the Chancellor on the 2d of July. Nine days before the time the rulers 
called the people together and disclosed to them the desperate state of 
their affairs. Mr. Parker had just before announced his resignation. 
At this meeting it was proposed to call Dr. Beecher, and the elders 
thought if the church would raise a large subscription, and call Dr. 
Beecher they could get help for the money. I said I did not think much 
of such expedients as calling Dr. Beecher, much as I should approve of 

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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

him as pastor, that time was precious, and I thought I could tell how 
the house could be saved. I thought Congregationalism could save it. 
They went on with calling Dr. Beecher, &c, and called meetings of 
Presbytery, until three days before the sale, when a committee of Pres- 
byterian elders called on me to know my plan. I disclosed my pecuniary 
means and plan of operations. The result was that they reported that 
it was inexpedient to attempt to extricate the old concern, but that I 
had better buy the house. I saw Mr. Green, the mortgage on whose 
claim the house was to be sold, on the next day after the committee 
called on me, made the arrangements I wished, and the next day after 
that bought the house at auction. I paid about $20,000 by my own 
notes, and $9,500 in cash. The cash was most of it loaned by Presby- 
terians for five years. The old church were astounded at the movement, 
and although compelled to praise what I had done in the highest terms, 
they were still so angry that they have left no stone unturned to do 
the new enterprise mischief. We have, however, been wonderfully 
prospered. Elder P. [itts] stands with us boldly, and is as happy as a 
prince in the new attitude of affairs. We are strong, however, with 
first-rate men for all posts, a capital choir, led by Mr. Andrews of the 
Academy of Music, and, above all, strong in the Lord, I trust. The 
course of the brethren is right. They start with prayer, and go on 
with firm and humble steps. Our pulpit has been well supplied for a 
month now since we separated. 

" The events of Providence have wonderfully favored us. I did not 
dream of bringing in Congregationalism with the help of Presbyterians, 
but so it is, and it is most wonderful. It fills me with joy and gratitude 
to see what God has wrought. May the movement be greatly to His 
praise. Our church is not yet formed, but will be probably in a few 
days. I sent you in a bundle of papers, yesterday, a report of the Com- 
mittee on Covenant, Rules, &c. We are all wide awake and extremely 
happy." * 

* Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, pp. 97, 98. 



CHAPTER IV. 
THE FIRST PASTORATE. 

The terms upon which Mr. Hale offered the use of the 
Tabernacle to the newly organized church were most generous. 
Dr. Thompson's intimate knowledge of both Mr. Hale and 
the church gives weight to his statement in regard to this 
agreement. He says: 

" Mr. Hale's connection with the Tabernacle was widely misunder- 
stood and misrepresented. What he did for the glory of God and the 
promotion of Christian truth, liberty, activity and love, was imputed 
to the most narrow and selfish motives. Having bought the house 
entirely on his own responsibility at a time when his pecuniary re- 
sources were limited, and having given on account of the purchase his 
own notes to a large amount, he was obliged to open the house more 
freely to public uses in order that the income from these lettings might 
pay the interest on loans and mortgages, ground-rent, and other current 
expenses, in all exceeding four thousand dollars. In so doing Mr. Hale 
sometimes allowed the Tabernacle to be used for purposes which were 
disapproved by the church and the Christian community, and as neither 
the extent of his obligations, nor his agreement to surrender the prop- 
erty to the church at cost, were generally known, the impression went 
abroad that he rented the building for the sake of gain, and was de- 
riving a handsome income from worldly amusements. This greatly 
scandalized some good people, and furnished his political and personal 
enemies with an inexhaustible fund of satire and abuse. All this he 
bore good-naturedly, knowing that in due time the whole matter would 
be understood. He had some peculiar notions as to the purposes for 
which such a building as the Tabernacle should be used, but he was 
ever ready to regard the wishes of his brethren in the church, even 
when he had entire control of the building. For several years he had 
the sole management of the building, renting it as he had opportunity 
for public purposes, and transacting all the business pertaining thereto, 
— for none of which services did he ever receive a single cent for his 
own benefit. As soon as the new church was organized, Mr. Hale 
leased the Tabernacle to the ecclesiastical society or congregation for 

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ten years at an annual rent of one thousand dollars. By the terms of 
this lease the congregation were to have the exclusive use of the audi- 
ence-chamber on the Sabbath, and of the lecture-room and other apart- 
ments during the week, and to receive all the revenue from pew-rents 
and collections, defraying their own expenses, — Mr. Hale reserving the 
right to let the building for miscellaneous purposes during the week, 
and engaging to meet all the expenses of the property. It was further 
stipulated, that at any time within the ten years, the Broadway Taber- 
nacle Society might purchase the property at cost, interest included, and 
that the net income of the building in the interim should constitute a 
sinking fund for such purpose. Thus Mr. Hale voluntarily put it out 
of his power ever to realize one dollar from what might have proved a 
most lucrative investment. He bought the Tabernacle at his own risk, 
intending that the property by its earnings should, as it were, redeem 
itself for the perpetual use and benefit of a Congregational church. 
An act so disinterested is hardly credited by a selfish world. Some 
sinister motive is ever suspected by those who know not what it is to 
forego self-interest for the glory of God." * 

At the same time that the church elected its Board of 
Deacons, its first Church Committee was chosen, consisting 
of five members : Messrs. David Hale, Marcus Hurd, Samuel 
C. Hills, Leonard Crocker, and George Dryden. The follow- 
ing articles, adopted by both the church and society, defined 
the duties of this committee, as well as the basis of union and 
co-operation of both organizations: 

" I. The Congregation shall hold the property, and receive the income, 
and make all pecuniary engagements, appropriations and payments. 

" II. In calling a Pastor the Congregation and Church will act as con- 
current bodies — a majority of each being necessary to constitute a call; 
the Church nominating and the Congregation confirming or rejecting 
the nomination. 

" III. The Committee of the Church will provide for the supply of the 
pulpit when there is no settled Pastor ; make the necessary arrange- 
ments for singing, and, in general, for the orderly celebration of 
religious worship; and the Congregation will liquidate all reasonable 
expenses thereby incurred. Provided, That if the Congregation choose 
to do so, they shall always have the right to make the Committee a 
joint committee, by putting on it as many members of the Congregation 
as have been elected from the Church." 

. * Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, pp. 104-107. 
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In reference to this committee Dr. Thompson says: 

" A committee was agreed upon in order to fix responsibility, not 
to confer power, the Church having always retained that entirely in 
their own hands." * 

Mr. Hale was most anxious to avoid the pitfalls into which 
the former Tabernacle Church had been betrayed. This, as 
Dr. Thompson points out, was largely effected by the Con- 
gregational Church polity where matters are determined 
openly by a majority vote rather than by the decision of a 
few individuals who control the affairs of the church. But 
in addition to this it was thought wise to lay down at the first 
certain principles which should govern the church's action 
when questions arose for settlement in regard to its relation 
to specific measures of reform. Accordingly Mr. Hale se- 
cured the adoption of the following declaration, the first of 
the Permanent Rules f of the church : 

" The design of a Christian Church we understand to be the enjoy- 
ment of Christian ordinances and the maintenance of the worship of 
God." 

In regard to this declaration Dr. Thompson says : J 

" Such a declaration was of great importance at a time when there 
was a strong tendency to transform churches into societies for particular 
reforms, and even for political action. The working of this principle 
in the Broadway Tabernacle Church has been most happy. Though 
some of the prominent members of the church are zealous for par- 
ticular measures of reform, the church itself has never been agitated by 
these subjects, for since every brother is left at liberty to advocate 
any reform, and to join or to organize any reform society, all are 
satisfied with this unrestricted personal influence without demanding 
church action in their favorite cause. Prayer and remarks, with ref- 
erence to such subjects, are unrestrained; personal action is free; but 
legislation in the church upon subjects so foreign to the design of a 
church is not desired by any. Each member of the church is re- 
sponsible to his brethren for his general walk and conversation, but 

•Joseph P. Thompson, History of Broadway Tabernacle Churchy etc., 1846, 
p. 13. f Appendix C. 

\ Joseph P.Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, pp. 102, 103. 



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may appropriate his efforts to any department of benevolent labor to 
which, in his own judgment, he is called by the Master, to whom he is 
directly responsible for the use of all the talents which have been com- 
mitted to his hands. At the same time any member of the church, in 
voting upon the reception of a candidate into church fellowship may 
make the opinions and practice of the person with regard to the use 
and sale of intoxicating drinks, slaveholding, dancing, and any other 
act of questionable morality, a test of piety, and the whole church may 
have a common moral sentiment upon such subjects which shall express 
itself as occasions arise, while they avoid the dangerous expedient of 
legislating on specific moral questions in the abstract. 

" These fundamental principles of church organization stand in the 
Broadway Tabernacle Church as a monument of the wisdom and fore- 
sight of David Hale, who derived them not from books nor from men, 
but from the study of the rudiments of church polity contained in the 
New Testament." 

Having organized its forces, the church proceeded to choose 
a pastor, and on November 30th the Rev. Edward Warren 
Andrews, of West Hartford, Conn., was unanimously elected 
to minister to the church, at a salary of $2,000, and on the 
same date the society approved the nomination of the church. 
Mr. Andrews accepted the call and entered upon his pastoral 
duties the first Sabbath of January, 1841. 

Deacon Lambert had served but three months when he 
removed to Brooklyn, relinquishing his office, and on January 
11, 1 841, Mr. Albert Woodruff was elected deacon, in his 
stead. On January 25th, a few days before Mr. Andrews's 
installation, the following resolutions, presented by Mr. Hale, 
were adopted by the church: 

" Resolved, That the Church of Jerusalem by whom, at the suggestion 
of the Apostles, Deacons were first chosen, did present the brethren 
chosen to that office before the Apostles that they might receive ordina- 
tion, and that it is expedient for this church to follow that example. 

" Resolved, That the Brethren who have been elected as deacons in 
this church be affectionately requested to present themselves for the 
purpose before the Council to be convened for the installation of our 
pastor." 

Of this Board of Deacons the first to be elected, the only 

one who received all the votes cast, was Mr. Samuel Pitts, 

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SAMUEL PITTS 
Deacon 1840 to 1853 



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who, for the first decade of its life, devoted his time and 
strength to the spiritual growth of the church. Deacon Pitts * 
was at this time not yet forty years of age. He had been 
converted when a school-boy in Litchfield, Conn., under the 
preaching of Dr. Nettleton; but on returning to his home in 
Ontario County, New York, had gone into hotel service, mar- 
ried, and when twenty-four years of age was proprietor of 
a hotel in Canandaigua, with every prospect of pecuniary 
success. His life at this time, though exemplary, was not 
avowedly religious; but a revival began in Canandaigua in 
connection with the labors of Mr. Finney, and Mr. Pitts was 
reconverted and consecrated his life anew to Christ and His 
service. As the keeper of a hotel upon a stage route Mr. 
Pitts had been accustomed to sell liquors at his bar; but 
in the new light of Christ's love his conscience would not 
permit him to promote drunkenness among his customers, 
and he at once destroyed the stock of intoxicating liquors he 
had on hand and closed the bar, thus establishing the first 
temperance hotel in Western New York. This occurred in 
the beginning of the temperance movement, and his action 
was considered most quixotic. It cost him the custom and 
support of the community, and resulted in the total loss of 
property and business. Though legally discharged from the 
indebtedness which his property could not cancel, " he lived 
scantily for years until he had paid to the creditors, with 
whom he had compromised, the full amount of their claims." \ 

On leaving Canandaigua, Mr. Pitts, after devoting some 
time to revival work, began a course of study for the ministry 
which he was obliged to relinquish on account of ill-health 
and seek more active employment. In 1835 he came to New 
York, where he filled the position of steward on a steamboat 
running from New York to Amboy. His former interest in 
Mr. Finney drew him to the Broadway Tabernacle when that 
was opened, and he united with the first church of that name, 
retaining his connection, as has been seen, until the new 

* Joseph P. Thompson, The Good Man's Memorial. 
\ Ibid., p. 20. 

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church was formed in 1840. Soon afterward, at the urgent 
solicitation of Mr. Hale, on the small salary of $500, Mr. 
Pitts began his work as steward of the church, looking after 
the renting of the pews and other temporalities of the church. 
He was deacon, from the first; trustee, from 1842; steward, 
young men's Bible class teacher, and pastor's assistant until 
failing health in 1852 forced him to dissolve his connection 
with the Tabernacle and remove to Tecumseh, Mich., where 
he died, January 20, 1855. At the sixtieth anniversary cele- 
bration of the church, Deacon Richard A. Dorman, a mem- 
ber of the Bible class which Deacon Pitts conducted for 
twelve years, recalled his memory, on the Reminiscence Even- 
ing, as follows: 

" Nearly fifty years ago I was a lad in the Sunday-school of the old 
Broadway Tabernacle. ... At that time Deacon Samuel Pitts was 
a prominent figure in the Tabernacle Church. He was a pastoral 
helper, giving his entire time to the work, but more especially to look 
after the young men. In an ante-room, opening off from the main 
auditorium, he held every Sunday morning a Bible class of some forty 
young men. The exercises were always commenced with prayer, and, 
after a half hour study of the lesson, a brief prayer followed in time 
for a few minutes general conversation before leaving the room. It 
was an impressive scene to see thirty or forty young men file out of 
that room as the organ struck the note of preparation for service, and 
find their respective places in the audience. Many close and lasting 
friendships were formed there. It was there that I met Alex. Anderson, 
long since gone to his reward. We became firm friends, boarding 
together in the same house for many years. Where one went, the other 
went also. Dr. Thompson dubbed us Peter and John. So far as I 
know, no one that belonged to that class ever went wrong, but all 
developed a sturdiness of character which, by the grace of God, carried 
them safely through the quicksands of a great city, to usefulness and 
honor. No less than three deacons in this church received their early 
training there. Another member of that class, Mr. Charles Stewart 
Smith, is one of the fifteen gentlemen who are now endeavoring to re- 
claim this city from the shame and degradation made possible by the 
intrigues of a few scheming politicians." 

Still another of this class, William D. Russell, converted 

through the prayers and influence of his teacher, removed to 

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Newark, N. J., where for many years he devoted much time 
and strength to the building up of the Belleville Avenue Con- 
gregational Church, of which he was a leading member. It 
would be impossible at this date to enumerate the multitude 
of young men whose lives were influenced for good by Mr. 
Pitts. He always refused to give any estimate of the number 
of persons whose conversion, humanly speaking, was due to 
his Christian efforts; but others have computed the number 
at not less than two hundred. When he left, after twelve 
years of faithful service, the church resolved 

" That the many offices of Christian kindness and love performed by 
our Brother Samuel Pitts during his long connection with the church, 
his cordial assistance to, and co-operation with, the pastor in visiting 
from house to house, his ready sympathy with the sick and afflicted 
of every name, and his eminent success in laboring for the cause of 
Christ and the conversion of souls, his untiring devotion to the spiritual 
welfare of young men and especially his labors in the Bible Class, 
merit the heartfelt gratitude and never-ceasing remembrance of the 
members of this church." 

The young men themselves expressed their sorrow for his 
loss in a resolution in which they said " his direct instrumen- 
tality in leading many of us into the fold of Christ merits our 
never-ceasing and grateful remembrance and commends to us 
an example eminently worthy of our imitation," adding to 
these appreciative words, as a testimonial, a purse containing 
$350 in gold. 

Dr. Thompson's short sketch of his life has this dedica- 
tion: 

" To the ' Pitts Bible Class ' this brief memorial of their beloved and 
honored teacher, prepared and published at their request, is affectionately 
inscribed." 

Looking back to the short period between 1840 and 1852, 
during which Mr. Pitts labored for this church, and remem- 
bering that Mr. Hale's life closed in 1849, more than half 
a century ago, it may seem that undue stress has been laid 
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upon the services of these two men; but Dr. Thompson, 
when recounting the history and work of the Broadway Tab- 
ernacle Church in his farewell sermon * preached November 
12, 1871, pays them this noble tribute: 

" In its beginning, this church received the impress of intellectual 
freedom and of spiritual fervor from two men who were, each in his 
way, among the most remarkable men that I have ever known. David 
Hale would have gone to the stake for the right to speak ; Samuel Pitts 
would have transformed the fires of martyrdom into a seraphic column 
of prayer. When a question came up in the Church, Hale would talk 
it out, and Pitts would pray it out ; and if it provoked controversy and 
threatened division, Pitts with an irresistible fervor of devotion would 
pray it down, and Hale with a magnanimity of concession that marked 
his real strength would give it up! These twin spirits shaped our 
history." 

Mr. Andrews, f the minister-elect, belonged to a distin- 
guished ministerial family. His father was the Rev. William 
Andrews, Congregational pastor at Windham, Danbury, and 
South Cornwall, successively, all of whose sons, save one, be- 
came ministers, widely known by their writings, their educa- 
tional and ministerial work, or for activity in connection with 
the Catholic Apostolic Church. Edward Warren Andrews 
was born at Windham, Conn., July 15, 181 1. His preparation 
for college was interrupted, and though he spent two years 
at Union College he did not graduate. At nineteen he was 
employed by the American Sunday-school Union at the West, 
where he spent nine months most usefully. After a course 
of legal study, he practised law for three years in Litchfield, 
Conn. When he abandoned the law for the pulpit he felt that 
he could have made no greater sacrifice. He was licensed to 
preach by the Litchfield North Association, May 23, 1837, 
and in November was ordained and installed as colleague to 

• Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D.D., Broadway Tabernacle Church; Its His- 
tory and Work, p. 33. 

f In this Chapter I have drawn freely from a sketch of the first pastor of the 
Tabernacle Church written by his nephew, the Rev. Wm. G. Andrews, of Guil- 
ford, Conn., as well as from a portion of Rev. E. W. Andrews's Manuscript 
Autobiography. — S. H. W. 




REV. EDWARD W. ANDREWS 
Pastor 1841 to 1844 



Likeness taken late in life. 



The First Pastorate 

the Rev. Nathan Perkins, D.D., of West Hartford, then near 
the close of his beneficent pastorate of almost sixty-six years. 
Here Mr. Andrews was successful and happy. Because of 
his unusual gifts as an orator his services were in demand 
for special occasions in the neighborhood. The oration which 
he gave in Middletown, Conn., on Washington's birthday, 1839, 
is still remembered in that township as " a splendid effort." 
He had only closed the third year of his ministry in West 
Hartford when he was summoned to New York. The call to 
the Broadway Tabernacle was a tempting one to a young 
country minister, yet he seems to have hesitated. But men 
of weight in his neighborhood like Dr. Porter, of Farming- 
ton, and Drs. Hawes and Bushnell, of Hartford, convinced 
him that it was his duty to lead the most hopeful Congrega- 
tional enterprise in New York. 

The great multiplication of Presbyterian churches in New 
York, in connection with Mr. Finney's evangelistic labors, has 
already been noted. The casting out by the General Assembly 
of the presbyteries that had been formed under the Plan of 
Union, awakened in Congregationalists a new sense of the 
fitness and adaptability of their own church polity, and though 
other denominations shared in this awakening and had like 
assurance of faith, probably none felt more keenly the neces- 
sity of asserting itself. A dozen or more Congregational 
churches had been gathered, in New York and vicinity, by 
1840. Four of these were represented in the councils for 
recognizing the Tabernacle Church and installing its pastor, 
but they led a struggling existence, most of them hardly sur- 
viving their infancy. There was a Congregational church in 
Newark, N. J., in 1837; but the oldest now existing in that 
city was organized in 185 1. The First Congregational Church 
of Brooklyn was formed April 14, 1838; but the Church of 
the Pilgrims, instituted in 1844, is the oldest Brooklyn church 
now entered in the Congregational year-book. 

According to his own recollection, Mr. Andrews began his 

ministry in October. He certainly preached more than one 

Sabbath before receiving his call — a unanimous one, though 

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there were two candidates — but he was not formally dismissed 
from West Hartford until December ; and, though his pastoral 
work began with the New Year, he was not installed until 
January 31, 1841. 

At the opening of the enterprise the prediction had been 
made that " a Congregational church formed at the Broadway 
Tabernacle would become a home for dissatisfied, restless, 
ungovernable spirits from other churches, and would soon 
develop into a hornets' nest, involved in civil war, and sting 
itself to death." At once Mr. Andrews was made sensible of 
the prejudice with which Presbyterians regarded all attempts 
to establish Congregationalism in the metropolis. Even those 
of the New School showed some natural jealousy at the pros- 
pect of a flourishing church that was already gathering in 
many New Englanders in the very heart of the city. The 
New School churches had been accustomed to welcome all 
such to their fold and transform them into stanch Presby- 
terians. After so many abortive attempts, for Congregation- 
alists to set up a successful church of their own order seemed 
almost intrusive. A distinguished Old School minister, the 
Rev. Gardiner Spring, D.D., not an extreme man, and a New 
Englander by birth and training, told Mr. Andrews that he 
was sorry to see him in New York on such a mission; that 
his efforts must fail; that Congregationalism was an exotic 
in New York, and would never flourish. 

The service of installation was held on Sabbath evening. Be- 
sides three neighboring Congregational churches — the Provi- 
dence Chapel (New York), the New York Congregational 
and the New York Mission Churches — and the Third Presby- 
terian Church of Brooklyn, four more distant churches were 
represented on the council — the Beneficent Church, Providence, 
R. I.; the North and Third Churches of New Haven, and 
the Congregational Church of Kent, Conn. The Rev. W. W. 
Andrews, of Kent, the new pastor's brother, a man of rare 
intellectual and spiritual gifts, preached the sermon. Dr. 
Tucker, of Providence, gave the charge to the pastor; Mr. 
Dutton, the right hand of fellowship; Mr. Cleveland, the 
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charge to the people ; the two latter being noted New Haven 
clergymen. Mr. Hale wrote of the services : 

" Mr. Andrews was installed on the last Sabbath evening of January. 
The exercises were excellent, the house full. Even Presbyterians pres- 
ent were filled with admiration. Prime Yankees are now joining us 
from all the churches round about. About thirty are now propounded. 
Everything has been ordered admirably in Providence. Never did God 
prosper anything more. I bless His name and am happy, and have been 
from the day I bought the house. Our pastor, we think, is just the man 
— of the Connecticut Old School — and now if God will add the blessing 
of His Spirit, sinners will be converted." * 

It will be seen from this that Mr. Andrews was strongly- 
conservative in opinion, and certainly he was far more con- 
servative in feeling than Mr. Hale. Under his ministry the 
church grew rapidly. It had seventy-four members that first 
Sunday in January when his pastorate began. During that 
year one hundred and eleven were added to the membership 
of the church, one hundred of these by letter; which shows 
what attraction a vigorous Congregational church had for 
Christians who had been obliged to seek a spiritual home else- 
where. They came in companies at every communion ser- 
vice ; in March thirty-two, thirty-one of them by letter ; May, 
eighteen, all but one by letter ; July, twenty, eighteen by letter ; 
September, seventeen, fifteen by letter ; and in November, when 
the religious interest began to awaken, which deepened as the 
winter went on into a spiritual revival, twenty-four, five of 
whom were received on confession of their faith — two of the 
latter being daughters of Mr. Hale. Deducting all losses by 
death and removals, at the close of 1841, the church numbered 
one hundred and seventy-six. The second year, when the 
fruits of the revival were gathered in, nearly as many were 
received on confession as by letter, one hundred and thirty in 
all, seventy on confession. Taking into account all losses, 
in December, 1842, the church numbered two hundred and 
seventy-three. In two years and a half the original number 
had more than quadrupled. Mr. Hale might well write that 

* Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, p. 101. 
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year of the Tabernacle : " It has so far been the most suc- 
cessful religious enterprise ever undertaken in this city." 

Were there no living witnesses to the power of Mr. An- 
drews's preaching, this remarkable growth of the church would 
be sufficient testimony, and the following entry in the records 
of a parish meeting, in 1841, shows plainly that he was then 
preaching to crowded houses: 

"Resolved, That the trustees be hereby directed to take effectual 
measures for protecting their pews on the Sabbath, at least during the 
day time. Passed. Mr. Andrews expressed the discomfort in his own 
feelings from not seeing his parishioners regularly in their wonted 
places, from their seats being preoccupied by strangers. Common in- 
terests would be promoted by a more rigid maintenance of rights." 

At this meeting the complaint was made that the seats for 
colored people (assigned to them at the right of the pulpit) 
were being encroached upon, too large a space was given up 
to them- so that room was wasted, and it was voted that "it 
is desirable the colored people should regularly occupy the 
seats designated." In October, 1842, the order was revoked 
that seats should be free on Sunday evenings. 

Distrust of the new Congregational enterprise began to 
abate. The Rev. Dr. Phillips, of the First Presbyterian 
Church of New York, then worshipping in Wall Street, was 
the first to break through the walls of denominational exclu- 
sion and propose to the young minister an exchange of pul- 
pits, and before his first year in the city had closed even Dr. 
Spring had preached in the " exotic." * 

During the revival of 1841-42 the pastor was assisted by 
the Rev. Edward N. Kirk, later of Boston, who held evan- 
gelistic services in the church. Among the converts of that 
year was the very eminent Christian, the late Jeremiah C. 
Lanphier, founder of the " Fulton Street prayer-meeting," 
whose own modest, faithful labor for Christ was honored of 
God as that of few men anywhere has been. It is believed 
that thousands were led to begin a Christian life through his 

* Rev. E. W. Andrews, Autobiography in manuscript. 
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direct or indirect influence. One who was an attendant at 
the Tabernacle services as early as 1843, in mentioning " that 
devoted Christian worker, Mr. Lanphier," recalls " his sweet, 
sanctified face, not sanctimonious at all, but a cheerful, lovable 
man." * A photograph of Mr. Lanphier was found among the 
papers of his old pastor after the death of the latter. The 
story of Mr. Lanphier's conversion has been written by Mr. 
Andrews : 

" When I went to the Tabernacle Mr. Lanphier was a member of 
the choir, and his rich, sweet tenor voice, which has since been listened 
to with pleasure by Christians from all parts of the world at the ' Fulton 
Street prayer meeting ' was one of the attractive features of our music. 
He was then associated in business, as a merchant tailor, with Mr. 
Geo. Andrews, the able leader of our choir during all my pastorate and 
from the beginning of its history one of the most devoted and efficient 
friends and supporters of the Tabernacle Church. 

" One day, near the opening of the revival, I was out walking, and 
passing the store of 'Andrews and Lanphier' on Fulton Street I 
went in. In the course of the conversation that ensued I said to Mr. L. 

" ' We are under great obligation to you, sir, for the assistance you 
render us as a member of our choir. I trust the day is not distant when 
you will stand in a nearer and more sacred relation to us as a member 
of our church.' 

" The remark seemed disagreeable to him and he replied with a spirit 
and emphasis quite unusual for him, 

" ' Dominie, I don't know but regeneration, as it is termed, is necessary 
for some — for me it is unnecessary. I don't know that I have ever 
intentionally done wrong to God or man.' 

" This was an assertion of self-righteousness so bold and unqualified, 
and unexpected from this mild and amiable gentleman that it almost 
took my breath away, and simply saying, ' You may yet, my dear sir, 
see the subject in a different light and my prayer shall be that you will,' 
I bade him good-morning. 

" On the next Sunday evening I preached about the Young Ruler 
whose good opinion of himself our Saviour disposed of so summarily. I 
endeavored to hold up a mirror in which all self-righteous men like Mr. 
Lanphier could distinctly see their moral likeness. For the next Tues- 
day evening I appointed an ' enquiry meeting ' as I knew there were 
a number in the congregation specially interested in seeking the salva- 
tion of their souls. When I reached the appointed meeting I was de- 
lighted to find the room filled and among the first I recognized was 
* Mr. Samuel G. Smith, Middletown, Conn. 
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Mr. Lanphier. He was one of the first I spoke to, and such a sudden 
and complete change in the moral attitude of a man toward God, I 
had never before witnessed. From a position of asserted moral inno- 
cence, of boastful independence of divine grace, he now looked upon 
himself as so guilty before God and so deserving of the threatened 
penalty of His holy law that he declared his doubts whether mercy 
could reach him." 

Mr. Lanphier continued for some days in great distress of 
mind until Mr. Andrews again called at his place of business 
and proposed that they should go together to his private room 
above. There they kneeled together, and while the pastor 
prayed, deliverance came, and " the sight of the Cross eased 
him of his burden." 

Mr. Andrews's endowments, as a preacher, were many and 
remarkable. His external charms of face, voice, and action 
are described as fascinating; his style was clear, direct, and 
forceful. A highly intelligent listener characterized his ad- 
dresses as " imposing oratory." All testimony that can be 
collected at this late day is uniform as respects the power of 
Mr. Andrews to attract and delight great congregations. A 
writer in a suburban newspaper said of a religious lecture 
delivered by him when he was past seventy, that at times it 
" reminded some of his audience of the eloquent young 
preacher who, over forty years ago, drew crowds to hear 
him at the Broadway Tabernacle." A series of Pulpit Sketches 
appeared at that period in the New World, a literary weekly 
edited by Park Benjamin, Epes Sargent, and R. W. Griswold. 
In the twenty-fourth number of the series may be found the 
following contemporaneous judgment: 

" We were astonished to hear Mr. Andrews, a young man apparently 
about five-and-twenty,* address an audience of four thousand people at 
the Tabernacle, in a style of thought and language not often equalled by 
sexagenarian doctors. . . . Mr. Andrews is evidently conscious of his 
high responsibilities; he speaks what he feels. . . . Whatever he 
treats, he treats with the confidence and success of a master. Juvenis 
annis, scientia senex, he merits the highest commendation which it is 
in our power to bestow." 

* He was twenty-nine when installed. 
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The Tabernacle would hold, though it could not seat, some- 
what more than 3,000, but the crowds that surged into the 
building filled the seats, and eager listeners stood thronging 
the aisles. Particularly was this true when the seven Sun- 
day evening lectures on the Second Advent were delivered in 
1843. Mr. Andrews was an ardent advocate of the doctrine 
that Christ's Second Coming will precede the Millennium. "He 
preached much on Daniel, and expounded the Prophecies," 
says one of his old hearers ; and the New York Herald stated 
with reference to the last of these popular discourses that 
" ten thousand people tried in vain to get into the already over- 
crowded building." One evidence of popularity, particularly 
gratifying to the preacher, was given when members of sev- 
eral Presbyterian churches took pews in the Tabernacle for 
use at the evening service. 

But the church was growing in other directions also. In 
1840, when the Sunday-school was formed in the lecture-room, 
there were three or four teachers and twelve scholars ; * but 
the number soon increased so that in a little more than eigh- 
teen months there were about fifty teachers and nearly two hun- 
dred and fifty scholars, inclusive of the members of seven 
Bible classes. Deacon Pitts's class has already been noticed; 
Mr. William W. Fessenden had the Woman's Bible Class 
" for Mutual Improvement," with forty members. But this 
was not all, for at the same time there were six mission 
schools, held in different parts of the city, the superintendents 
and many of the teachers of which were members of the 
church or congregation. 

At that date few of our churches were conscious of their 
responsibility for the spread of the Gospel. Individual church 
members realized it, and missionary societies were formed, 
but few churches had any organized scheme for contributing 
to Christian work outside of the support of the Gospel ordi- 
nances for their congregations. In March, 1841, a plan for 
the distribution of the charities of the church that included 
collections for the American Board and the New York Sun- 

* History of Broadway Tabernacle Church, 1846. 
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day-school Union was presented to the church, but action 
upon it was postponed. The matter was taken up again in 
November, and then laid on the table, the church voting that 
it was " inexpedient that public contributions should be taken 
up on the Sabbath for any other purpose than the support of 
public worship and Christian ordinances in this church and 
congregation." And so the long-handled wooden contribution 
boxes were passed and thrust to the farthest end of each pew 
that every penny might be collected for the support of the 
ordinances of their own church. These Sabbath collections 
for meeting current expenses continued for many years. No 
doubt the weight of their obligations to Mr. Hale made the 
church eager to secure all possible gifts toward the cancelling 
of that indebtedness, but the strong motive that produced this 
action was the wish to prevent the church in those days of 
benevolent enterprise from pledging itself to become the ad- 
junct of any altruistic organization. The church should be 
free to give or not, when and how it pleased, and no cast-iron 
rules should bind it to contribute regularly to any cause, espe- 
cially as the church was not at one as regards the attitude 
of the leading societies of the day toward slavery; and the 
Congregational churches had not then, as now, their own 
denominational charities. The preamble and resolutions 
adopted at this time * show that the church did not wish to 
cut itself off from all Christian benevolence, for the pastor was 
requested to use his best judgment in bringing before the 
congregation the claims of Christian charity. Four years 
later, in July, 1845, the church adopted a resolution authoriz- 
ing the committee of the church to cause a contribution to 
be taken up at the close of the service whenever objects had 
been presented for the consideration of the congregation. 
That the church was not indifferent to the cause of missions 
is shown by the fact that as early as 1844 a well-sustained 
Sunday - school missionary society was organized, and the 
women of the society were supporting a home missionary in 
the West. 

* Appendix D. 

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Another circumstance, entered in the church records, marks 
the conservatism of Mr. Hale. When in May, 1843, Mr. Will- 
iam G. West, a strong advocate of total abstinence principles, 
offered a resolution that the deacons procure unfermented 
wine for communion use, Mr. Hale moved that the resolution 
be indefinitely postponed, and his motion was promptly car- 
ried. 

The prayer-meeting, during those early years, was held on 
Monday evenings. It was voted, December 20, 1842, that all 
matters of church business were to be transacted soon after the 
beginning of the meeting, instead of at the close; and, early 
in 1842, it was agreed that a collection should be taken up at 
the prayer-meeting every second Monday evening, for the 
benefit of the Sunday-school. At the annual meeting, Feb- 
ruary, 1844, the prayer-meeting was changed from Monday 
to Tuesday evening, except that, on the first Monday of the 
month, the monthly concert of prayer for the conversion of 
the world took the place of the regular church prayer-meeting. 
The dates of the communion service were also changed, the 
first communion of the year being on the first Sunday of Jan- 
uary instead of February, and so continuing on the alternate 
months through the year. 

Early in 1844 a project of forming a Congregational Union 
was started by some churches in the vicinity, and the Taber- 
nacle Church was invited to join the enterprise. The prin- 
cipal features of this union, as proposed, were that it should 
act as an advisory body, and be a council for the purpose of 
taking into consideration all matters pertaining to the welfare 
of the churches, which might demand its attention — with the 
design of promoting harmony and intercourse among the 
churches — communicating information respecting the state of 
religion within its bounds, devising means and measures for 
advancing the interests of Christ's kingdom, and producing a 
more extensive co-operation in every good work. The ques- 
tion of joining this union was elaborately discussed at several 
meetings held for the purpose; and the measure was strenu- 
ously advocated by some, on the ground principally of the sup- 
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posed urgent necessity for some plan of union and co-opera- 
tion between the Congregational churches in the vicinity of 
New York. Mr. Hale insisted that the union " should be for- 
ever debarred from exercising any ecclesiastical authority 
whatever." Other objections urged were that such organiza- 
tions were unscriptural, uncongregational, unnecessary, and 
likely to lead to controversies and dissensions not only among 
but in the churches, and, finally, that uniting with the pro- 
posed Union would be in direct contravention of the first 
declaration of this church as to the design of a Christian 
church. The church took no action as to joining the Union 
because of this diversity of opinion. This was nine years be- 
fore the formation of the American Congregational Union, in 
which the Tabernacle Church was most actively engaged. 

It was early in this same year, January 29, 1844, that the 
second strong Congregational church of Greater New York, 
the Church of the Pilgrims, was formed in Brooklyn, partly 
at the instance and through the influence of Mr. Hale, who 
contributed $2,000 toward the church building that was then 
put up on the corner of Henry and Remsen Streets at a cost 
of $65,000. What this church became under the brilliant min- 
istry of Dr. Storrs, it is needless to say, or how it supplied 
the friends of Congregationalism with another powerful argu- 
ment. Seven other Congregational churches, those of Dr. 
Cheever and Henry Ward Beecher being among them, were 
established in the two cities during the first five years of Dr. 
Thompson's pastorate, to all of which Mr. Hale contributed 
generously, but the Church of the Pilgrims would hardly have 
been formed, nor would the Congregational movement have 
gathered such force, but for the phenomenal growth of the 
Broadway Tabernacle Church under Mr. Andrews's ministra- 
tions. In a short notice of him, which appeared after his death, 
he was described as the founder of the Broadway Tabernacle. 
With equal reason he might be called the " Father of Con- 
gregationalism in Greater New York." In fact, both titles, 
if they belong to any man, belong to the devout, unselfish, 
energetic, patient, clear-headed, free-handed layman, David 



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Hale. But he could not have dispensed with the help which 
he received from both the ministers with whom he labored, 
and no one of the three men is in need of any borrowed honor. 
But Mr. Hale and Mr. Andrews were ill fitted to be yoke- 
fellows. Mr. Andrews, a conservative to the core, too easily 
thought Mr. Hale a radical, which in most respects he cer- 
tainly was not. Mr. Hale believed that "a house" (includ- 
ing the house of worship) is a place for special convenience 
for men, not for special presence of God ; * that a place could 
not be desecrated by any use not in itself sinful and the Tab- 
ernacle, for which Mr. Hale had assumed such heavy obliga- 
tions and for which he neither sought nor received any 
pecuniary advantage, might lawfully be used as a place of 
amusement on week-days so that it might continue to be a 
place of worship on Sunday. As an illustration of the annoy- 
ance this use of the audience-room sometimes made the church, 
Mr. Samuel G. Smith, of Middletown, Conn., recalls an exhibi- 
tion of laughing gas given in the Tabernacle " which caused 
great merriment, cheering, and stamping of feet from the 
audience. At this stage Mr. Hale came up from below, and 
with a very graceful bow congratulated them upon the suc- 
cess of the exhibition ; he then continued : ' There is a meet- 
ing, a religious meeting below, and will you manifest your 
approval and enjoyment by just a clapping of the hands ' (suit- 
ing the action to his words) ' and not by stamping on the 
floor.' Then with another graceful bow he withdrew, amid 
cheers." The editor of the New York Herald, Mr. Bennett, 
whose friendly gibes at Mr. Hale's expense, represented him 
with pockets lined with gold from his speculation in church 
property, made this another occasion to blaspheme. It was 
during this year, in the political campaign of Clay and Polk, 
that a meeting of such Democrats as opposed the annexation 
of Texas, but yet supported Polk, was held in the Tabernacle. 
The meeting, which was addressed by David Dudley Field, 
William Cullen Bryant, and others, was broken up by the infa- 
mous Captain Rynder's rowdies and heelers. It is not sur- 

* Memoir, p. 324. 
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prising that some, besides Mr. Andrews, were disturbed by Mr. 
Hale's way of carrying out his theory, and vigorously opposed 
it. 

Other personal reasons conspired to induce Mr. Andrews, 
after about three and a half years of ministerial service in 
New York, to ask for release from his charge. This he did 
July 30, 1844, and, his resignation having been accepted, he 
was formally dismissed by a mutual council on August 14th. 
He preached his farewell sermon Sunday morning, August 
1 8th. He left to his successor a strong, united, and highly 
influential church, and he had made it impossible to regard 
Congregationalism any longer as a hazardous experiment in 
New York. 

Mr. Andrews's after-life was a varied one. In December, 
1844, he became pastor of the Second Street Presbyterian 
Church in Troy, N. Y., where he remained until May, 1848. 
He then established a boys' boarding school (the Alger Insti- 
tute) in his father's old parish of South Cornwall, and had 
under his care many sons of his former parishioners in Troy 
and New York. Before the close of 1853 he had disposed of 
his school, and, in New York City, resumed the practice of 
the law, which had always attracted him strongly. He be- 
came also an active politician, and until almost the close of 
his life was in much request as a political speaker. When 
the Civil War broke out he entered the army, became the Chief 
of Staff to General Morris, commanding the defences of Balti- 
more, and held the rank of colonel. After the war he was 
a lawyer and editor in West Virginia, and later practised law 
in Michigan. As early as 1870, when not quite sixty, he be- 
gan once more to labor as a preacher and had charge of a 
Union Church in Michigan, though obliged to continue law 
practice to support his family. After the winter of 1875-76, 
when he found his religious life greatly quickened and up- 
lifted, he availed himself of every opportunity to preach. But 
most of his work, and probably his best, was done as an 
evangelist, especially in West Virginia, where his success was 
remarkable, and where he gained a battle with "organized 
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infidelity." In this capacity he had full scope for what re- 
mained of his old eloquence. After 1885 the burden of years 
and attacks of illness made labor in either profession less 
practicable. In 1888 he had temporary charge of a small Pres- 
byterian church in Fairfax County, Va., and he continued to 
preach when he could to the end. His conservatism was still 
intense, not only in theology but in politics, and, though suf- 
fering from disease, disappointment, and straitened circum- 
stances, he still trusted in God and clung firmly to the blessed 
hope of his Lord's Return. He died at Norwood Park, Chi- 
cago, September 2, 1895, in the house of his youngest sur- 
viving child, Mrs. Merwin-Marie Snell. Mr. Andrews pub- 
lished comparatively little, though many of his sermons and 
addresses were reported by the press. He married, October 
9, 1834, Mary Le Baron Gilbert, of Fair Haven, Vt. Of their 
eleven children, two sons, Captain Edward Watson Andrews, 
and Warren Parkhill Andrews (both soldiers in the Civil 
War), and Mrs. Snell, alone survive. 



CHAPTER V. 
THE SECOND PASTOR, JOSEPH P. THOMPSON. 

It was the middle of August, 1844, when Mr. Andrews was 
dismissed, and there was an interim of eight months before 
the installation of his successor. This period might have been 
a most trying one. Many members of the church and society 
were tenderly attached to Mr. Andrews, and it was questioned 
whether their loyalty to the Tabernacle Church would bear the 
strain of his loss. But the church remained united ; few left, 
and additions continued at each communion season. The pul- 
pit was supplied much of this time by the Rev. John S. C. 
Abbott, a man of rare Christian character and literary attain- 
ments, whose pulpit talks, given in a simple conversational 
style, always interested his hearers. 

The church observed a day of fasting and prayer on No- 
vember 28th, and on December 10th both church and society 
met to elect a pastor. 

David Hale had heard of a young minister in New Haven, 
had made inquiries concerning him, and at his suggestion Mr. 
Thompson was called to be the pastor of the Tabernacle Church. 
Fifty votes were cast by the church members present, all but 
one (blank) being for Mr. Thompson. The society concurred 
with the church in offering a salary of $2,000. 

Joseph Parrish Thompson, son of Isaac and Mary Ann 
Thompson, was born in Philadelphia, August 7, 1819. On 
his father's side he was of sturdy New England stock. His 
mother descended from a family of Covenanters driven to the 
North of Ireland from Scotland by a storm of persecution. His 
earliest ancestor in this country, John Thompson, was one of 
the first settlers in Stratford, Ct., who came from London in 
1635. Dr. Thompson himself relates the well-preserved family 
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tradition that this pioneer came first to see the country and 
then went back to England in order to settle affairs in the old 
home and remove permanently to the new. While journeying 
on a by-road he was detained by a farmer, who had learned 
of his travels in the New World, that he might break bread 
with him and give the news. The traveller told his strange 
tales of a wild land full of savage beasts and savage men, but 
added, joyfully, that he should go back, nevertheless, as there 
he could serve God as seemed to him right. At that, Mirable, 
one of the farmer's three daughters, cried out, "Then would 
I were there ! " 

" But could you," asked the young man, " for the sake of 
Christ, endure the trials and perils of that far-off coast? " 

" Yea, gladly, by God's help," replied the Puritan maiden 
who, not long before, had suffered the shame of the pillory 
for worshipping with Separatists. When John Thompson re- 
turned to Stratford, Mirable came also as his wife. The line 
of descent from him was Ambrose (1652), John (1680), John 
(1717), William (1742), Joseph (1769), Isaac, father of 
Joseph Parrish. 

William Thompson (1742) was a lieutenant under General 
Wooster; he fell at Ridgefield, Ct, April 27, 1777.* 

His great grandson, Joseph Parrish Thompson, graduated 
from Yale College (1838) and began theological study at An- 
dover, Mass., continuing his studies in the Yale Divinity 
School. He had not completed his second year of theological 
study, nor had he attained his majority, when he received a 
call to Chapel Street Congregational Church (the Church of 
the Redeemer), in New Haven, not without the advice of his 
instructor, Dr. Taylor. 

" He delayed a written answer to the call till after his birthday be- 
cause of a question in his mind whether before that day he was legally 
competent to bind himself by a contract with the ecclesiastical society. 
. . . He entered upon his work with the eager enthusiasm of a 
gifted boy and with the steady strength of a well-trained man." t 

* Joseph P. Thompson, The Sergeants Memorial, 1863, p. 14. 
t Leonard Bacon, D.D., New York Independent, Sept. 25, 1879. 

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He won a large place in the hearts of his people and of 
his ministerial brethren in the city. When the call to New 
York came, his New Haven friends protested against his going ; 
and well they might, for he already gave promise of what his 
multifarious work might be. 

Mr. Thompson's form was slender, his smile sunny, his face 
radiant. His eyes sparkled and his frequent laugh was whole- 
some. He was quick to recognize acquaintances and to find 
out the strangers in his congregation. His sermons were writ- 
ten, and were clear, argumentative, convincing, giving his 
hearers food for future thought. He instructed rather than 
aroused his hearers. Yet as a platform speaker, when his own 
feelings were moved, he rose to eloquence and awoke the en- 
thusiasm of his audience. He was a scholar of multiform 
interests, with ready insight, a broad outlook, and wise judg- 
ment. Few men have had a keener scent for knowledge 
or a deeper craving for omniscience. For a student, New 
Haven was an ideal residence. But Mr. Thompson had been 
city born and bred, and he believed heartily in the common 
people and wished to work for them. The Tabernacle Church 
had at that time three hundred and twenty members, flourish- 
ing Sunday-schools and Bible classes, and a congregation of 
2,000. 

Doubtless the general scepticism as to the hopefulness of 
Congregational enterprises west of New England, and the fear 
that, since Mr. Hale owned the Tabernacle, it might prove to 
be a one-man church, influenced him to decline the invitation. 
Deacon Pitts, who was one of the committee to present it, 
wrote an urgent letter which Dr. Thompson afterward pub- 
lished. In it he said : * 

" I know of no field of ministerial labor more inviting, encouraging 
immediate efforts for the conversion of sinners. There are already 
some quite serious individuals, with one case of distressing conviction 
for sin. There appears an unusual readiness on the part of the im- 
penitent to listen attentively to personal conversation on the subject 
of religion. Our dear church has never been more harmonious than 
at present, and greater unanimity in making the call for you to become 
* The Good Man's Memorial, pp. 47-50. 

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our shepherd could not be possible; not a negative vote appeared in 
the church, and but one in the congregation, and that by mistake. I 
consider it a Macedonian entreaty, as directly emanating from the 
Great Head of the Church as the one sent the apostle. 

" Our church commenced with earnest prayer accompanied with a 
day of fasting, imploring Divine guidance in the selection of the right 
one to preside statedly over our interests. As an individual, my exer- 
cises and views have been peculiar when before the mercy-seat be- 
seeching our Saviour to grant the favor our destitution demands. I 
have most devoutly and solemnly pledged myself before the Searcher 
of all hearts, to sustain you with more than ordinary devotedness to 
the interests of a pastor; for any one in this position requires more 
sympathy and prayer than is often felt and offered for pastors of 
churches. Could I see you and unite in prayer with you over this 
subject, it would greatly relieve my burthened soul. ... I have 
made myself thus prominent in this communication by the particular 
request of my brethren. 

" My brother, if I am at all thought of in making up your final 
conclusion, I can safely assure you of my affections, and engage with 
a most ready mind to stand by you, and sympathize with you in all 
the trials and conflicts you may be called to encounter. For it is a 
great work to which you are called — none other than a Nehemiah 
enterprise. O my brother, may we not hope that the God of Israel 
will grant a Nehemiah's victory over all the obstacles which may be 
delaying your decision." 

Mr. Hale also wrote to disabuse his mind of several errone- 
ous views he entertained as to the position of church and con- 
gregation ; for himself he said : 

" I would not advise any man to attempt to live with me as my 
pastor upon the plan of refusing me liberty to speak in the meetings 
of the church, or any other brother; nor upon the plan that whatever 
he proposes must be law, whether it be wise or unwise. But I think 
you have no such propensities; and if you come to be my pastor you 
may defeat my plans and get me voted down as often as you please, by 
fair discussion, and you shall never lose my affectionate regard on that 
account. But my impression is that we should think alike, from the 
beginning of the year to its end; and, certainly, your own proper 
province I shall always be glad to have you manage to suit yourself, 
without any care of mine. My wish is that our glorious Master may 
be honored, and his gospel proclaimed by every tongue, to the ends 
of the earth; and I never mean to act from any motive of selfish or 
personal feeling." * 

* Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, p. 95. 

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The urgency of this call so pressed upon Mr. Thompson 
that he was led to reconsider the matter. On January 6, 1845, 
a plan of subscription for pews was presented at a society meet- 
ing, the subscriptions to be payable with interest within five 
years, twenty-five per cent, to be paid within six months, on 
the condition that the Broadway Tabernacle be bought and the 
title owned and controlled by the congregation. Subscriptions 
were so prompt and generous that, after a half hour, it was 
found that $11,060 had been subscribed. Mr. Hale then offered 
the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: 

" Whereas, The Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, to whom a call has been 
extended by the church and congregation of the Broadway Tabernacle, 
has written to the chairman of the committee presenting the case as 
follows : ' If the congregation will pledge themselves to purchase the 
house within six months or some short and definite period, and will 
furnish evidence that they can make the purchase without subjecting 
themselves to any heavier annual burthen (for interest, etc.) than they 
are now under — i.e., without assuming a burthensome debt — a great 
objection to my acceptance of the call will be removed. This would 
give me the highest confidence in the present strength and future suc- 
cess of the enterprise.' 

"And whereas, This congregation is earnestly desirous to meet the 
wishes of the Rev. Mr. Thompson so that he may feel confident in 
accepting the call presented to him, and believe with him that the pur- 
chase of the house is a consummation greatly to be desired, and have 
from the beginning kept this consummation constantly in view, and 

" Whereas, By an effort which has been made within a very short 
period it is evident that there are both ability and disposition in the 
members of the congregation now to consummate the purchase of the 
house and without contracting any debt which is likely ever to affect 
the congregation unfavorably, but will, on the contrary, place its pe- 
cuniary affairs in a very easy position, and 

" Whereas, The arrangements already made between the congregation 
and the proprietor of the house are mutually agreeable, the congregation, 
therefore, feel able, disposed, and warranted in giving to the Rev. Mr. 
Thompson the pledge suggested by him, Therefore 

" Resolved, That the congregation pledge themselves to complete the 
purchase of the Broadway Tabernacle forthwith." 

The following resolution was also adopted: 

"Resolved, That the Broadway Tabernacle church and congregation, 

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REV. JOSEPH P. THOMPSON, D.D., LL.D. 
Pastor 1845 to 1871 



The Second Pastor, Joseph P. Thompson 

being assembled together, do most affectionately and earnestly renew 
our invitation to the Rev. Mr. Thompson to become our pastor." 

Mr. Hale wrote to Mr. Thompson : 

" You have pointed out the weak spot in our concerns. I have not 
looked on the matter of my sole ownership as a sine qua non, but as a 
malformation which would be corrected in due time. I shall be most 
happy if, in the beginning of your labors among us, you are able to 
bring us upon a right basis. The members of the congregation re- 
sponded cheerfully to what you propose, and I am confident that the 
necessary arrangements will be made." * 

The terms of sale were made very easy for the society by 
Mr. Hale. About $12,000, raised by the sale of pews, was 
paid to Mr. Hale. This, with the net earnings of the property 
during the nearly five years that he had owned it, reduced 
his claim to about $18,000, which was arranged by a mortgage 
running eight years, the interest of which would be met by 
rents and extra use of the house. The church committee re- 
ported at the annual meeting of the church, February 25th: 

" A cause for great mutual congratulation and devout gratitude to 
God is afforded us in view of the transfer of our place of worship into 
the hands of the church and congregation, and the committee feel that 
many thanks are due to the proprietor for the magnanimous liberality 
which has been exercised by him toward the church to this auspicious 
consummation." 

This was evidently heartfelt; and in the second meeting 
for securing a pastor, March nth, when the invitation to Mr. 
Thompson was renewed, one grateful parishioner cast his vote 
for Mr. David Hale. 

The deed of conveyance was signed and executed on March 
4, 1845. The invitation was sent once more to Mr. Thompson, 
and the reply intimated that he would accept the call when dis- 
missed from his pastoral connection in New Haven. The letter 
of acceptance, written April 1, 1845, pays a beautiful tribute 
to his New Haven church, and recounts the ties that bind him 
there. He alludes to the literary associations of the place, to 

* Manual of Broadway Tabernacle Church, 1855, p. no. 

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his favorite plans and opportunities for personal improvement, 
to his affectionate and beloved people, and adds : 

" My past ministry has been an uninterrupted season of enjoyment ; 
my life as a pastor inexpressibly sweet; I will not affect to be indif- 
ferent to the results of a change so important to myself." 

In this letter Mr. Thompson engaged to be responsible for 
the care of but two services upon the Sabbath, and stipulated 
for four or five Sundays of vacation. In the Council for Instal- 
ment, which was called for April 15, 1845, were represented 
the Yale College, First, Howe Street, North, and Church 
Street churches of New Haven ; the Congregational churches in 
Salem, Conn. ; the Carmine, Allen, and Mercer Streets churches 
(Presbyterian) of New York City; the Fourth Congregational 
Church, New York ; the Congregational churches in Elizabeth- 
port and Jersey City, N. J. ; and the Church of the Pilgrims, 
Brooklyn. The Revs. Messrs. George Shepherd, of Bangor, 
Me.; John S. C. Abbott and Milton Badger, D.D., of New 
York, were also invited. The sermon was preached by the 
pastor's friend, the Rev. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven, and 
the Revs. Messrs. Samuel Merwin and S. W. S. Dutton, also 
of New Haven, and the Rev. Edwin Holt, of the Carmine Street 
Presbyterian Church, New York, took part in the services. 
Mr. Thompson's first sermon, the following Sunday, was 
preached from the text : " I seek not yours, but you." 

Work in the church and society now took a new start. 
Money had been appropriated, and some raised, for repairs, 
carpets, and painting, and the building was put in fresh order. 
The church steward, Deacon Pitts, was now called upon for 
more labor in the line of pastor's helper and his salary raised 
to $800, while Mr. Hale was at once appointed to let the build- 
ing for such purposes as were in keeping with the sentiments 
of the church, thus utilizing his financial prudence for the 
benefit of the society. For what amounts and what purposes 
the building was rented can hardly be enumerated here. The 
trustees' records, during the first years of the church, show 
that when the audience-room was given up by the church on 
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York City Bible Society, $50 was received for its use, and the 
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society paid $10 a day 
for the lecture-room. A scientist,* who remembers the old Tab- 
ernacle as " a great place for lectures," writes of courses that 
were delivered there, and recalls Dr. Lardner and Fauvel- 
Gouraud, who was one of the earliest writers on artificial cul- 
tivation of the memory — " Phreno-mnemotechny " the method 
is called in the now scarce book he published on the subject. 
Others recall the concerts, vocal and instrumental, given there 
by the Hutchinson family, who came " from the mountains of 
the old Granite State " to sing of freedom ; or by Dempsey, 
the ballad singer; or the Philharmonic Society, the leader of 
whose orchestra, Mr. Ensign, was himself a faithful member, 
as well as organist, of the Tabernacle Church; and the tem- 
perance rallies, when Gough moved his hearers to laughter 
or to tears; and, most notable of all, with the exception of 
the anniversaries, the great anti-slavery meetings. Deacon 
William B. Holmes, in a paper read at the Sixtieth Anniversary 
of the church, says of the building : 

" Located just where the tide of travel was the thickest (which rarely 
extended above Broadway at Fourth Street), democratic in its sim- 
plicity, there was no place in the city (with the single exception of 
Castle Garden) so well suited for popular assemblages; and to it the 
people and strangers from all parts of the country flocked on every 
occasion. It was a veritable ' Tribune of the people,' and the Cradle 
of Congregationalism in New York City. . . . Besides being the 
meeting place whither the tribes went up annually to attend the great 
May Anniversaries — and there were great meetings in those days — 
the Tabernacle was the forum where reformers of every class and 
advanced thinkers of every name and sex held forth, and, usually, to 
large audiences. I remember to have heard Wendell Phillips, William 
Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, E. P. Whipple, 
Fred Douglass, Lucy Stone, Father Gavazzi, Elisha Kent Kane and 
others within its walls; also of divines, Charles G. Finney, Horace 
Eushnell, Professor Edwards A. Park, Dr. Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward 
Beecher (on slavery), Richard S. Storrs, President Sturtevant and 
Dr. T. M. Post, then of St. Louis. Louis Kossuth, the Magyar Patriot, 
here met with an enthusiastic reception from a large audience. These 
names are of a past generation, but the memories which the names of 
* Professor Wm. P. Blake, University of Arizona. 

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these intellectual giants of earlier days recall, are sufficient to remind 
us of what a centre of influence the Old Tabernacle became, whose 
lines reached out through all the earth. The affection and sentiment 
gathered around this sacred place it is difficult to transfer to any more 
modern edifice. What Faneuil Hall was to Boston, or Exeter Hall to 
London may be said of the Old Tabernacle in its relation to New York." 

It is not surprising, with so free a use of the building, that 
Mr. Hale's report, July 16, 1846, gave an excess of receipts 
for rent above expenses, for the year, of $2,754.66. 

The young minister's first important work after settling his 
household and getting adjusted to new duties and surroundings 
was to revise the church manual. At a business meeting, Oc- 
tober 28, 1845, a special committee of seven was appointed to 
take the subject into consideration — the Rev. Mr. Thompson, 
Messrs. John C. Cass, William C. Gilman, David Hale, Israel 
Minor, Thomas Ritter, and Henry Whittlesey. This commit- 
tee reported December 30th. The report stated that in order 
to secure the confidence of New England churches (still dis- 
trustful of Congregationalism outside of their own geograph- 
ical boundaries) the Tabernacle at the outset adopted the Con- 
fession of Faith of Park Street Church, Boston. This was 
well done, and had won the confidence of sister churches in 
the East. The articles, however, were framed during the Uni- 
tarian controversy, to emphasize the Trinitarian attitude of 
Park Street Church, and they were particularly explicit upon 
the doctrines of the trinity, of human depravity, and divine 
sovereignty. They gave a partial exhibition of the plan of 
salvation, and could hardly stand as the interpretation of the 
Gospel received by the Tabernacle Church. The committee had 
endeavored, at first, to preserve, as far as possible, the original 
document ; but, failing in that endeavor, set about the construc- 
tion of an entirely new creed. After having been carefully 
drafted by one of their number (presumably Mr. Thompson), 
it was discussed by the committee, evening after evening; 
studied, sentence by sentence; and, at last, unanimously 
adopted. At the annual meeting of the church, February 24, 
1846, the articles of faith, form of admission, and standing 
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rules,* offered by the committee of seven, were unanimously 
adopted, but for one negative vote as to the articles. 

Another change made at this meeting is recorded in the 
" History " of the church ( 1846) . Until that date persons 
who united with the church by letter were required to come 
forward publicly and make a profession of faith as if they had 
never before done so. A large proportion of those added to 
the Tabernacle Church brought letters from New England 
churches, where such a practice had not prevailed, and it ap- 
peared to them an unnecessary innovation. As there seemed 
to be no warrant for the proceeding, either in the constitution 
of the church or the exigencies of the case, the church voted, 
by a large majority, to abolish the custom. 

The order of the church services in the old Tabernacle, under 
Dr. Thompson, is given as follows : f Sunday-school in the 
forenoon, followed by the usual morning service ; after a short 
intermission, Sunday-school again; regular afternoon service 
with preaching, and the pastor conducted the evening service. 
It will be remembered that Mr. Thompson, by the terms of his 
settlement, was excused from conducting the afternoon meet- 
ing. 

On Friday evening there was a lecture by the pastor. 

One who was a Sunday-school scholar in those days writes : J 

" We had two sessions of the school in those days and some of us 
who lived more than a mile away carried our dinner and remained for 
the second session, coming away before the afternoon service. I think 
Mr. Thompson rarely preached in the afternoon, and the attendance 
was probably small. But the evening congregation was large, many 
strangers, many young men. On a rare occasion, I was present one 
evening to hear his sermon on the Gospel Supper. I remember good 
Deacon Pitts, and his kindly, fatherly way when he came to talk with 
me about uniting with the church. The communion followed the morn- 
ing service and I recall the impression made, before I ever partook 
of it, by Mr. Thompson's words, at such a service, in regard to the love 
of Christ, — almost his tones as he said ' I cannot tell you all it means.' " 

* Appendix E. 

t Deacon Charles Whittemore. Paper read at Sixtieth Anniversary. 

I Miss Emily S. Gilman. 

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" The weekly prayer-meeting was held in the basement of the church, 
and it was the custom of the pastor to have the brethren alternate as 
leaders with a view to the exercise of their spiritual graces, he himself 
reserving his share until the close of the meeting." * 

We can, in spirit, be present at one of those prayer-meet- 
ings where Deacon Pitts met God, face to face, and to which 
Mr. Hale would often come direct from the office without his 
evening meal, rejoicing in such a relief from temporal cares. 
It is his turn, to-night, to lead the meeting. He enters hur- 
riedly and takes his seat, saying that he has been so busy all 
day that he has had no time for preparation, not even to select 
a hymn. " But here is one that ought to put us in a right 
frame." Then he reads Montgomery's wonderful forecast of 
heaven, " Forever with the Lord ! " and, as he reads, his soul 
kindles. " Yes, brethren, ' Forever with the Lord ! ' No cares, 
no vexations, no hurry, no business, nothing to draw off our 
minds from Christ. What a blessed relief after being pent 
up so long in this poor body." Another evening we might hear 
Alexander Pirie's joyful hymn sound out in loud acclaim (for 
they sang with a will in those days, and many of the volunteer 
choir of forty were church members who would be present 
at the meeting) . They sang these words : 

" Come let us join in songs of praise 
To our ascended Priest ; 
He entered heaven with all our names 
Engraven on his breast." 

and Mr. Hale stood up and said: 

" Brethren, let us look a little at the sentiment of this hymn. Is it 
true? Have we thought what it means? Has Christ entered heaven 
with all our names engraven on his breast? Is David Hale written 
there? Is , and written there? Does Christ know us indi- 
vidually, and present us to his Father, name by name ? " t 

The effect was overpowering, and many disciples present 
realized their union with Christ as never before. 

In 1846 there were large accessions to the church, eighty-six 

* Deacon William B. Holmes. Paper read at Sixtieth Anniversary, 
t J. P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, pp. 127, 128. 



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in all, the number of those received by certificate being less 
by fourteen than those who made profession of their faith. 
This was the first year in which the Sunday afternoon services 
were dropped during the summer months, and that the change 
did not give general satisfaction is evident from the fact that 
for several following years the church voted to keep up the 
afternoon service throughout the summer. The fund for the 
poor was probably established this year, when Deacon Israel 
Minor was made its treasurer. 

In November a committee of five was appointed in connec- 
tion with the trustees to inquire whether and in what way a 
permanent entrance could be secured to the Tabernacle from 
Broadway. The committee was authorized to make such pur- 
chases or other arrangement as they might deem judicious and 
desirable for that purpose. This entrance was not secured 
immediately, and it seems that the pastor's practical common- 
sense finally found means to accomplish the purpose, for, in 
his farewell address, in 1871, he says that by making the pur- 
chase of the old Tabernacle by the society a condition of 
accepting their call, and, afterward, by suggesting a plan for 
the purchase of the Broadway entrance to the building, it was 
his good fortune to contribute in some measure toward the 
corporate strength which paved the way to the material pros- 
perity of the society at that date. By this arrangement, in 
March, 185 1, Mr. Israel Minor, deacon and trustee of the 
society for many years, secured for the society a house and lot 
known as 340 Broadway, at $20,250, and received from the 
Board of Trustees a special vote of thanks for his energy and 
tact in making the negotiations, and for the many pecuniary 
sacrifices he had made for the interests of the church. The 
thanks of the Tabernacle society were also presented to Mr. 
B. Blanco at the annual meeting, November, 1851, for the 
generous aid afforded by his counsel, personal efforts, and 
money in paying off the mortgages which had been cancelled 
during the year. 

One notable feature of the Tabernacle Church was the num- 
ber of men who were attracted to its services. The situation 
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of the building made it easily accessible to strangers in the 
large hotels of the city. Mr. Andrews said that every public 
service, on Sunday, was a sort of special occasion where per- 
haps hundreds were present for the first time. The church 
was conveniently placed for young men living near their places 
of business ; and besides this, the themes that Dr. Thompson 
discussed, the breadth, virility, and freshness of his thought, 
made his church peculiarly attractive to men of intelligence, 
and it became under him what it has continued to be., pre- 
eminently, a church for men. Instead of having the larger 
proportion of its members women, as is too often the case, 
from 1846 to 1856 there were one hundred and eighty-five men 
and one hundred and seventy-five women added to its mem- 
bership. 

Strongly backed and encouraged by Mr. Hale, Dr. Thomp- 
son made the church a denominational power. New Congre- 
gational churches were springing into life on all sides, and 
under its pastor's wise guidance, the Tabernacle Church was 
always ready with encouragement, support, and such pecuniary 
aid as it could afford. Delegates, when appointed to councils 
by whose advice new churches were to be founded, were some- 
times given discretionary power to pledge such sums of money 
as might seem best in aid of the new enterprise, and these 
pledges, when reported to the church, were made good. The 
church, it is true, did not colonize. Many futile attempts had 
been made in New York to establish Congregational churches, 
and Dr. Thompson no doubt thought it wiser to hold together 
one strong church that could aid others, than to deplete its 
membership in order to infuse life into feeble congregations 
that might even then be unable to help themselves. In 1857 Dr. 
Thompson enumerated the following Congregational churches, 
then in existence, that had been formed since the organization 
of the Tabernacle. In New York: Church of the Puritans, 
Eastern Congregational Church, Twentieth Street Congrega- 
tional Church, Bethesda (colored), Smyrna (Welsh). In 
Brooklyn : Church of the Pilgrims, Plymouth Church, Clinton 
Avenue Church, South Congregational Church, Bedford 



The Second Pastor, Joseph P. Thompson 

Church, Elm Place Church, Park Congregational Church, War- 
ren Street Mission Church, New England Church, Central Con- 
gregational Church, Williamsburg Church. Toward the estab- 
lishment of most of these and other Congregational churches, 
East and West, Mr. Hale contributed personally large sums 
ranging from a few hundreds to two or three thousand dollars, 
besides supporting a missionary who travelled through Western 
New York and another in Michigan looking after the interests 
of feeble Congregational churches. " He gave away thousands 
annually," says Dr. Thompson, " to promote various objects of 
Christian benevolence, but turned his contributions in the later 
years of his life very much into the channel of Congregational 
enterprises." * The establishment of a Congregational church 
in Detroit was due to his influence and aid. 

In July, 1846, a Congregational convention was held in 
Michigan City, Ind., called by the general association of 
Michigan which had been formed four years before, and the 
Broadway Tabernacle Church, with some other Eastern 
churches, was invited to be present by delegate. David Hale 
was appointed to this service, and his strong convictions, wise 
judgment, dignified self-control, and absolute fairness in de- 
bate had sufficient force to swing the convention around from 
a half-way tolerance of the " Plan of Union," which some still 
wished should, in a modified form., continue operative between 
the New School Presbyterians and the Congregationalists in 
the West, to an absolute repudiation of any attempt to hold 
the two denominations in the presbytery or synod. A promi- 
nent member of that body says: 

" But for him, that convention would, I think, have adjourned with- 
out taking that decided action against the ' Plan of Union ' which has 
so essentially benefited the denomination at the West, and which has 
since been endorsed at the East. The committee appointed to report 
on that subject recommended only a modification of the Plan, and ex- 
erted themselves to procure the adoption of their report. Mr. Hale 
took the lead in opposing the modification and boldly maintained that 
the Plan should be abrogated. At first his views seemed ultra to many 
of us. We were not prepared to go so far. But his quick discernment 
* Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, p. 1 18. 



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and ready wit, his strong arguments and apposite illustrations, were 
too much for the committee (of whom I was one and contended for 
a modification), and the brethren were led almost unanimously into 
his view before we separated. He was added to the committee, and 
wrote the latter part of the report, which was finally adopted unani- 
mously. ... So rapidly did the influence of Mr. Hale increase 
toward the close of the convention, that one of the officers remarked 
to me, ' If the convention had continued two days longer, Mr. Hale 
would have had the whole control of it.' " * 

Thus the Broadway Tabernacle Church was made a strong 
power to support and strengthen Congregationalism in the 
West. The very fact that such a convention had been held 
at the call of the Michigan association awakened much inter- 
est in the East. Its action was commended by a number of 
well-known conservative New England ministers, and sharply 
criticised by New School Presbyterians who wished to retain 
their hold of Congregationalists in the West. Congregation- 
alism was discussed more and more, both East and West, and 
the Tabernacle, a now flourishing church, well established on 
middle ground between New England and the Western States, 
was guided so wisely as to hold the confidence of the East 
and the sympathy of the West. Dr. Thompson himself claims 
that "this church (and the movement of which it was the 
nucleus) was the medium of fusing the old and the new, and 
of bringing the churches East and West to a consciousness of 
national life." \ 

Dr. Thompson, who was at his best whenever he had a 
cause to defend or promote, labored with unremitting energy 
for the independence of Congregational churches from Presby- 
terian entanglement. In a report unanimously adopted by the 
State General Association, in 1848, he exposed the unequal 
and injurious workings of the " Plan of Union " and moved its 
discontinuance, following the path blazed by the Michigan 
conference ; doing this, he says, " for peace with a sister 
denomination as well as for progress of our own." J As chair- 

* Joseph P. Thompson, Memoir of David Hale, p. 124. 

\ Broadway Tabernacle Church : Its History and Work, pp. 35, 36. 

% Ibid., p. 36. 



The Second Pastor, Joseph P. Thompson 

man of a committee appointed by the same association he pre- 
pared the call and constructed the plan for the great Albany 
convention of 1852, the first synodical Congregational gather- 
ing that fairly represented the whole denomination since the 
Cambridge Synod of 1646-48. Four hundred and sixty min- 
isters and delegates from seventeen States convened at this 
call, including the leaders of Congregationalism East and 
West. Five hundred copies of the report of the Michigan 
City convention were distributed among the members of the 
Albany convention, and the Rev. Parsons Cooke, of the 
Puritan Recorder, wrote (October 2, 1852) : 

" In looking over the report of that Convention [Michigan City] 
which we made and published at the time, we have been struck by the 
remarkable fact that most of the important measures passed at this 
Albany Convention were substantially the same as those which had 
been passed six years before by the Convention at Michigan City." 

Thus the pastor worked on the same lines that had been 
marked out by his parishioners in 1836. In their devotion to 
the interests of their own church polity they were at one. By 
the Albany convention the unity of Congregationalism was 
at last made evident. 

Next to its repudiation of the " Plan of Union " the most 
valuable work for the denomination done at this convention 
was the approving of the movement, begun and urged by 
Henry C. Bowen, and the appointing of a committee, to raise 
$50,000 for the building of church edifices in the West. The 
Tabernacle Church encouraged this work by a volunteer com- 
mittee to solicit donations to the fund. The sum raised for 
church building purposes exceeded the amount proposed by 
more than $12,000, and the effort resulted in the formation of 
the American Congregational Union in the old Tabernacle. 
The next year, of its thirteen trustees, five were Tabernacle 
men. The trustees of this Union, twelve years later, called the 
various State committees to meet, in the present church build- 
ing, as a conference preliminary to convening the first National 
Council. At this Council, held in Boston, Dr. Thompson was 
appointed first of the two assistant moderators and chairman 
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of the Committee on Declaration of Faith, besides serving on 
another important committee, and again, in 1870, the national 
delegation met in the Tabernacle to plan for the Jubilee of 
the Pilgrims. That meeting recommended among other 
memorial services, the holding of a Pilgrim Memorial Con- 
vention at Chicago, 111., April 27, 1870, and there the move- 
ment began that resulted in the organization of the National 
Council. In view of the national influence exerted by the 
Tabernacle Church it was in no idle spirit of boastfulness that 
Dr. Thompson exclaimed in his farewell sermon: 

" May this church never become so absorbed in caring for its own 
affairs as to recede from that position of national preferment, in re- 
spect of the principles and the progress of its own communion, to which 
it has attained by fidelity in upholding and by generosity in giving." 

Still another important contribution by Dr. Thompson to the 
cause of Congregationalism was the inception and successful 
establishment of a denominational journal in New York City. 
In planning for a Congregational newspaper in New York, 
Mr. Thompson had no thought of any editorial connection 
with it himself. Messrs. Hunt, Bowen, and McNamee, and 
S. B. Chittenden were warmly interested in the project and 
stood ready to furnish the requisite capital, while Mr. Thomp- 
son set out to find a New England editor. Failing in this, he 
endeavored to induce Dr. Leonard Bacon to give up his New 
Haven church for the editorial chair. Mr. Hale was eagerly 
interested in the enterprise. He offered to subscribe $1,000 
toward a capital of $10,000 to start the paper, and was ready 
to become its business editor, either personally or through his 
son, Mr. Richard Hale, with the understanding that Dr. Bacon 
should have entire editorial control. But in June, 1848, Mr. 
Hale was stricken with apoplexy, and died about six months 
later, and as for Dr. Bacon, he could not be persuaded to 
resign his pastorate. Still Mr. Thompson kept his project in 
mind, and one evening Mr. Seth W. Benedict, an active mem- 
ber of the Tabernacle Church, while calling upon his pastor, 
chanced to remark, " If you wish to see a Congregational 



The Second Pastor, Joseph P. Thompson 

paper in New York you must start it yourself and I will help 
you." Thus encouraged, Dr. Thompson set out the next morn- 
ing for New Haven to consult Dr. Bacon; and the two re- 
turned together to enlist Rev. R. S. Storrs, Jr., of Brooklyn. 
Capital was at once furnished according to agreement; Rev. 
Joshua Leavitt, whose long experience on The Evangelist had 
well fitted him for the post, was engaged as office editor ; Mr. 
Benedict was secured as publisher; the name and policy of 
the paper were decided on; and, a fortnight afterward, on 
the morning of December 7, 1848, the four editors and five 
proprietors were all invited by Mr. Benedict, the publisher, to 
meet at ten o'clock in the press-room, in a small dark base- 
ment. Dr. Thompson arrived first; and, having determined 
to secure the first copy of the paper, placed himself nearest 
the press, holding his position resolutely against all later 
comers. At last Mr. Benedict said : " Gentlemen, editors, 
proprietors of The Independent, are you still ready? " The in- 
stant echo came : " All ready ! " Mr. Benedict shouted to 
the engineer, " Start the press ! " and Mr. Thompson seized 
triumphantly the first copy of the first issue of the paper 
which for fourteen years this triumvirate of ministers edited 
with surprising success.* 

In their salutatory the editors said: 

" There has been growing up in this metropolis, in this State, in the 
great and free North- West, a body of churches whose organization is 
founded on the great New England principle of Congregational Inde- 
pendence. Multitudes of intelligent Christian men who are not in these 
churches are in sympathy with them, and are looking for some popular 
exposition of current ecclesiastical and religious questions, and of all 
the progress of our times as seen from the position of that great prin- 
ciple. . . . Our hope is to make such a newspaper as every intelli- 
gent and large-hearted pastor will welcome to his own family and to 
the families of his flock. We hope that our labor as editors of a re- 
ligious journal — a labor which requires us to regard with habitual 
attention all the great interests of the church and of humanity — will 
better qualify us for our v/ork as pastors whether in the pulpit or from 
house to house. At the same time we also hope that our relation as 
pastors, constantly employed in the pastoral work, and holding constant 
* Henry C. Bowen, The Independent, December 6, 1888. 



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intercourse with other pastors, and with the churches, will enable us, 
in some respects, to make a better newspaper than if we had retired 
from the pastoral office or had never known its duties and its sympa- 
thies. We hope to pay our weekly visits in this way to thousands of 
families, spreading before them the changing map of the Church and 
of the world ; teaching, exhorting, warning all ; enriching each reader's 
mind with facts and principles, touching the springs of Christian affec- 
tion and devotion, and aiding and cheering all the while the labor of 
the living ministry in a thousand homes. 

[Signed] Leonard Bacon, 

Joseph P. Thompson, 
Richard S. Storrs, Jr." 

It must have been of no small advantage to these city clergy- 
men to be able to follow up and drive home their Sunday 
utterances by ringing mid-week editorials. 

In its issue of December 2, 1869, the twenty-first anni- 
versary of The Independent's birth, a reminiscent editorial re- 
calls the office at " number 22 Beekman Street, into which every 
day at two o'clock stepped the brisk, smiling, and industrious 
Dr. Thompson; into which about once a fortnight came the 
venerable head of Dr. Bacon, and into which, about twice a 
year, moved the eloquent step of Dr. Storrs, 

' Whose very foot had music in't 
As he came up the stairs.' " 

The writer hinted that the rarity of Dr. Storrs's visits 
might be due to fear of the printer, sorely tried by his much- 
corrected proofs. As to the other editors, he said: 

" Dr. Thompson rarely and Dr. Bacon never made an alteration. The 
exact measure of their fame among our readers we cannot gauge, but 
among our printers their memory is without a stain of reproach to 
this day." 

Of the three editors Dr. Thompson was the most active and 
responsible — " by far the most efficient," says Dr. Bacon : 

" Week after week, year after year (extraordinary absences ex- 
cepted), every column of every issue was inspected by him for its last 
corrections, before going to the press. The experienced sagacity of Dr. 
Leavitt, as well as his great editorial skill, was invaluable; but to the 

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youthful enthusiasm of Dr. Thompson, to his indefatigable diligence, 
and to his marvellous rapidity of thought and pen, more than to what 
could be done by either of his colleagues in the responsible editorship, 
the new journal was indebted for its rapid and continued success." * 

Dr. Thompson spent, as a rule, an hour at the office daily, 
meeting the others for conference on Monday morning, and 
planning, together, their editorial work. Dr. Bacon says of 
the editors' design in starting The Independent: 

" It was not so much his ambition and theirs to advance their sect, 
as it was to put an ignorant reluctant Church right before the world. 
It was the day when reform, in despair of the support which the Church 
ought to have given it, was ready to throw itself into the arms of un- 
belief. Dr. Thompson was one of the men who saw the exigency, and 
in his early youth declared that slavery must perish because it was 
not only an offence against the rights of man but a crime against the 
law of God and the brotherhood of the Church of Christ. It was that 
he might teach the Church morality, that he might make it aggressive 
against sin, that he took a foremost part in conducting The Inde- 
pendent." t 

Dr. Storrs, forty years afterward, in writing of those early 
days, compares himself and Dr. Thompson to " two emulous 
novices, in maiden armor " cantering " with gay audacity into 
the lists by the side of the tough and experienced knights, 
as if it were all to be a festive holiday game and there were 
never to be hard or sharp blows given or taken." J The first 
number of the paper was issued without a single pledged sub- 
scriber. In seven years its weekly edition was 15,000. Soon 
after the paper was established, Dr. Bacon, the senior editor, 
went abroad for a year or more ; Dr. Leavitt, the experienced 
journalist, confined his labors, according to the arranged pro- 
gramme, to office work and the news department, and these 
two young ministers had to bear the brunt of many an excit- 
ing controversy in the cause of freedom. Important among 
these was their brave opposition to the Tract Society on the 
matter of its pledged and offensive silence about slavery and 
its insufficient financial reports, and their contention that Dr. 

* The Independent, October 2, 1879. \ Ibid., September 25, 1879. 

%Ibid., December 6, 1888. 

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Bushnell should have liberty of speech whether his opinions 
suited them or not — a stand which was bold enough then, 
though now it seems the merest truism. 
Dr. Storrs goes on to say: 

"Then came the Fugitive Slave law, and the Union-Saving craze 
which followed; and while Dr. Bacon was off in Persia, with his life 
in peril among the Koords, all the beasts of Ephesus seemed suddenly 
to have sighted or snuffed their opportunity, and to be combined in 
one passionate onset against The Independent proprietors, editors, as- 
sistant editor, and the paper itself. 

" The spirit of blithe and adventurous nonchalance with which we 
had begun our work had been by that time a good deal sobered. We 
recognized fully at the office the gravity of the crisis, and its severity. 
But we certainly were not frightened: and I do not think that we 
ever gave back, by a foot-breadth, from the front-line of our persistent 
opposition to slavery, or of our endeavor to rally and hold the Chris- 
tian people of our country in determined antagonism to it. The Castle 
Garden frenzy seemed, for the moment, to carry all before it, but I 
know from distinguished individual testimonies, some of which I still 
have, that our work at the time was not without its important effects ; 
and the development of the great party which first took organic form 
in 1856, and which has now for the seventh time been intrusted with 
the conduct of national affairs, was certainly due, in a measure at least, 
to the influence of the paper at that angry and clamorous crisis, and 
in following years. The minds and consciences of ministers and church 
members, throughout the range of our widening circulation, were fully 
prepared for the happy consummation when it came." * 

* The Fortieth Anniversary. The Independent, December 6, 1888. 



CHAPTER VI. 
FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW TABERNACLE. 

A number of important church and parish matters came up 
for settlement between the years 1846 and 1856. The ques- 
tion of absentees would naturally arise when the trend of 
population turned from the vicinity of the church toward the 
uptown districts, and the congregation became more and more 
a shifting one. The matter was first brought up by Mr. Hale 
in 1847, and, after some months, a working plan was accepted. 
The rules, as published in the church manual (1855), were 
adopted May 13, 1851, when a list of absentees was ordered 
made, and April 26, 1853 ; * and certain principles of discipline 
embraced in the report of a special committee were adopted 
June 29, 1852.1 This report recommended the appointment, 
from time to time, of committees of inquiry upon the cases 
of absentees or of members who, though residing in the neigh- 
borhood, were supposed to be living in neglect of covenant 
vows ; stress being laid on the fact that these committees were 
not inquisitorial, but were appointed solely to procure informa- 
tion in regard to the residence and church connection of de- 
linquent or absent members. 

There had been already, as was but natural in so large a 
church, a number of cases of discipline, one of the most pain- 
ful being that of a deacon of the church against whom charges 
of dishonesty were brought in 1847. After being admonished 
for the same cause and for drunkenness, he was first sus- 
pended, and, at last, January 3, 1850, excommunicated. One 
woman also was suspended in 1847 " for supporting herself 
and family by appearing on a theatre's stage." 

In June, 1848, an attack of apoplexy warned Mr. Hale to 

* Appendix F. f Manual, 1873. 

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settle his temporal affairs as speedily as possible, and the 
trustees responded to his request that he should be relieved 
from all obligations assumed in the name of the society, and 
that the indebtedness of the Tabernacle Church to him should 
be cancelled. His illness lasted about seven months, during 
which time he gradually relinquished the many schemes for 
usefulness which he had planned, and resigned himself to the 
Will that throughout his busy, helpful life he had endeavored 
to follow. He sent his love to all the Tabernacle Church, to 
its pastor and several members by name, and in his wandering 
thoughts desired to be " dated " from the Tabernacle. He 
died in Fredericksburg, Va., January 26, 1849, leaving a strong, 
united church to carry on the work which he had begun, single- 
handed, with arduous self-sacrifice and abounding faith, less 
than nine years before. 

The continuous letting of the Tabernacle for large and 
sometimes boisterous gatherings became a weariness to Dr. 
Thompson, as it had been to Mr. Andrews before him; par- 
ticularly when the church prayer-meeting, or weekly lecture, 
was " disturbed and rendered unprofitable by noisy assem- 
blages " in the audience-room directly over the place of meet- 
ing. Various entries in the records, such as a vote of the 
church committee to secure a lecture-room away from the 
Tabernacle " because of noise of clapping and stamping over- 
head," show considerable dissatisfaction, and, on June 27, 
1848, a fortnight after Mr. Hale had been taken ill, the pas- 
tor offered a resolution in the church meeting that a committee 
of five should be appointed to confer with the trustees respect- 
ing this evil, and, in particular, to urge upon the congregation 
the importance of a vigorous effort for the early cancelling 
of the mortgage in order to diminish the necessity for the 
miscellaneous lettings of the house, and so to remove what 
he called " the great hindrance " to their temporal and spirit- 
ual prosperity. Mr. Thompson gave his reasons in full, and 
the motion was passed unanimously. In the autumn of the 
same year the pastor went further and preached a sermon on 
the importance and pecuniary condition of the Tabernacle en- 
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terprise (repeated by request), thus preparing the society for 
the action that was forced upon it by the loss of Mr. Hale; 
but its indebtedness was not cancelled at once, the society 
still found it necessary to let the house, and as late as Decem- 
ber 12, 1853, we fi n d the church committee proposing to 
change the prayer-meeting evening because of the noise. 

But the records of the church are largely occupied during 
this period with the affairs of other neighboring churches. 
The Tabernacle took part in the organization of eighteen new 
Congregational churches during this decade, to say nothing 
of the numerous councils to settle or unsettle pastors over 
these infant churches, or to render advice as to the pecuniary 
affairs of these struggling enterprises. By pastor and dele- 
gate it assisted in not less than eighty councils that concerned 
Congregationalism in New York City and State during those 
ten years. 

Early in 1852 a crushing blow fell upon the pastor of the 
church. His wife, Mrs. Lucy O. Thompson, daughter of 
Mr. James Bartlett, of Portsmouth, N. H., who had been in 
failing health for several years, died on January 27th, leaving 
four little children to her husband's care. Under the great 
strain upon his affections and sympathies, caused by the ill- 
ness and death of his wife, Mr. Thompson's health at last 
gave way, and he was forced the following summer to ask 
release from pastoral duties for a year's absence abroad. The 
younger children were placed in charge of relatives of Mrs. 
Thompson, the society requested the trustees to provide funds 
for the expenses of their pastor's travel, equal in amount to 
his salary, and the following year they appropriated $600 to 
meet the indebtedness incurred for the children's maintenance 
during their father's absence, and increased the pastor's sal- 
ary to $3,000. Once before an additional sum had been paid 
Mr. Thompson, by the trustees, in order that his wife might 
be supplied with those comforts that her failing health re- 
quired. Thus was established that system of distinguished 
liberality which has marked the dealings of the Broadway 
Tabernacle with all its ministers. 
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The letters that passed between pastor and people during 
these transactions were mutually affectionate and appreciative. 
In response to his application for release from work the trus- 
tees recorded their sympathy with him in his sorrow, and 
a'dded : 

" During all the time of your ministry among us we may confidently 
say that there has never been a time when the pastor has not had the 
entire confidence and affection of his people." 

Dr. Thompson's rest had always an element of work in it, 
and this trip abroad was made to do service in aid of that 
Oriental study to which he was already turning his attention. 
Leaving his oldest son, a boy of nine years of age, with friends 
in France who cared for him as for their own, he now visited 
Egypt and the Holy Land, which held many enigmas that he 
desired to solve. From this time he devoted much time and 
study to Egyptology, being the first student in the country 
to obtain any distinction in this line of investigation. 

On October 23, 1853, Dr. Thompson married Elizabeth C. 
Gilman, his wife's most trusted friend, daughter of William 
C. Gilman, Esq., whose family had come into the church on 
the same Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, the two house- 
holds having been on terms of special friendship. 

Dr. Thompson's letter of acknowledgment, addressed on his 
return to the society, is full of interest. He confesses that, 
owing to the greater cost of living he has not been able to 
keep his family expenses within the limits of the salary on 
which he was settled, and is grateful that the necessary in- 
crease of salary has been made without any request for it on 
his part. He will not acknowledge to any over-work, though 
the charge was brought against him, no doubt justly, all his 
life ; he says, rather, that his health was impaired " not by any 
excess of labors, but by a strong and wearying draught upon 
the affections and emotions at a time when public labors were 
also pressing," and that in making it easy for him to rest and 
travel they had proved the best of physicians. He continues : 

" My life as pastor does not date exclusively from either 

the ' sunny ' or the ' shady ' side. I like a little of both for 

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the best effect in morals as well as in nature. But this full 
burst of sunshine that has opened upon me since my return 
will last through many a shade. While I feel impelled to 
speak more than words can utter, I can only say ' My heart 
is yours, my strength is yours, my labors are yours, my life 
is yours, for Christ's sake and the Gospel's.' " Referring to 
his new ties he adds : " The same kind Providence that has 
restored to me my health has also restored to me my home ; " 
and he gives the parish a cordial invitation to the parsonage, 
63 Amity Street, on the following evening. Mrs. Thompson 
worked quietly but most efficiently to second her husband's 
efforts, and the home in Amity Street, as well as Number 32 
West Thirty-sixth Street, where Dr. Thompson moved in 1857 
when the old Tabernacle was sold, became a centre of helpful- 
ness and hospitality. " I will consult the wise woman," a sen- 
tence often heard from Dr. Thompson's lips, was not mere idle 
compliment. 

In his sixtieth anniversary reminiscences Dr. William H. 
Thomson recalled the friendliness with which this busy pas- 
tor made his home and his intellectual pursuits serve the needs 
of his parishioners, especially the young men. He said: 

"Dr. Thompson had a very pleasant custom of having small social 
gatherings at his house when he would first read an essay or contribu- 
tion which he was about to publish in some periodical or book,* and 
its subject would be offered for discussion by those present, many of 
whom were men greatly distinguished in the literary world, like Rev. 
Dr. Frothingham, Dr. Bellows, or William Cullen Bryant. At other 
times the company would be limited to members of his own congrega- 
tion ; but at all times the guests were privileged in being thus permitted 
to share in an intellectual feast, which often had the further and in- 
tense interest of association with some phase of stirring national con- 
test which was going on. I cannot but remember those evenings as 
bright memories indeed, testifying to the friendly sentiment which 
prompted Dr. Thompson to bring young men into the best fellowship 
which his position afforded." 

But the ministrations of Dr. Thompson were by no means 
confined to his own stated congregation. In his tenth anni- 

* For a partial list of Dr. Thompson's published works, see Appendix H. 

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versary sermon, preached April 8, 1855, from the text : " With 
my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two 
bands," the pastor reviewed the general history of Congre- 
gationalism in New York for the decade, as well as the his- 
tory of the church. At that date he was the senior pastor 
of the Congregational order in the Southern District of New 
York; of the more than two hundred Congregational pas- 
tors in the State, only twelve had been settled longer than he. 
During these years there had been two periods of revival, in 
1846 and in the winter of 1851-52, which had resulted in 
large accessions to the church. In the latter period Mr. Fin- 
ney had come again to New York and held, in his old church, 
services that had been fruitful of good results. But the rec- 
ords of the Church Committee bore testimony, from the first, 
to the efficacy of the spoken word in the Tabernacle pulpit. 
Many who came before the committee to be examined for ad- 
mission to the church, attributed their first awakening to a 
sermon by " our pastor," Mr. Andrews or Dr. Thompson, and, 
at this period, by Dr. Finney. In this sermon,* and in his last 
sermon in the old Tabernacle, Dr. Thompson illustrated, by 
instance after instance, the value to strangers of the Taber- 
nacle services in results that could not be reckoned by ordi- 
nary church statistics. An English lady from Jamaica, who 
had sought the pastor's counsel, a young student from South 
Carolina, a stranger casually met in Germany, an invalid seek- 
ing renewed life in Egypt, a doubter induced by a friend to 
listen to a gospel sermon, a Vermont lawyer curious to hear 
a New York preacher, had all personally confessed to Dr. 
Thompson their indebtedness for heavenly grace and comfort 
found there, when they were but chance attendants. Only 
" the Lord " could " count when He writes up the people that 
this man was born there." 

When the rising tide of business began to sweep up toward 
Fourteenth Street and to force New York citizens to seek resi- 
dences farther north, the downtown churches speedily fol- 
lowed their members and supporters. In 1857 Dr. Thompson 

* Manual of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, &c, 1855. 



From the Old to the New Tabernacle 

enumerated twenty-two churches that had removed from be- 
low the Tabernacle, from Broadway, Exchange Place, Beek- 
man, Cedar, Chambers, Gold, Frankfort, Franklin, Fulton, 
Murray, Nassau, Pine, Wall, and Warren Streets to points 
higher up town.* But the Tabernacle Church was not ready 
at first to follow. The Christian public had a lien on the build- 
ing and would have detained the church longer. Christian 
merchants were glad to have their employees, living in down- 
town boarding-houses, welcomed to so hospitable a church 
home. Some of its old traditions as a free church still hung 
about it; its preacher took an open, manly stand against 
slavery, and so, many who had been trained piously and who 
sought to build up homes and fortunes in a free republic — 
English, Scotch, Scotch-Irish, knocked for admission almost 
as soon as they landed in America, and were never denied; 
but old residents moved away and were swallowed up in their 
neighboring churches. The Tabernacle Church membership 
was continually fluctuating; from 1840 to 1857, sixty were 
removed by death, and more than ten times as many by dis- 
mission. 

The church did not yield to the current without a struggle. 
When, in 1850, the effort was made to raise money to pay the 
debt and to purchase the fee of the Broadway entrance, an 
appeal was made to the Christian public for aid to retain 
" this great house of worship," used by the Church at large, 
for the public benefit. The response was not encouraging. 
Only $800 was subscribed outside the society, and that mainly 
upon personal grounds, while nearly $10,000 was raised by 
the society. 

Four years later another attempt was made to interest the 
public in preserving the Tabernacle. It was proposed to di- 
vide the Tabernacle property into stock, to alter the building 
so that it might bring in as large a revenue as possible, but 
to reserve from the stock company the Sunday use of the build- 
ing for church purposes. The plan included the erection of 
a new house of worship for the church nearer the residences 

* Last Sabbath in Broadway Tabernacle, 1857. 

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of its members; the church assuming the responsibility and 
expense of supplying the pulpit of the old Tabernacle. This 
stock it was supposed would yield a seven per cent, return; 
but so little interest was shown in the scheme that no one out- 
side the Tabernacle was ready to subscribe. 

The pastor made up his mind that money and a preacher 
could not alone sustain a church. Christian families so near 
to the place of worship that they could attend its various ser- 
vices and keep up social intercourse as fellow-members of one 
Church of Christ were essential in order that the church might 
become the salt of the region in which it was placed. This 
he maintained with vigor. There were too few Christian fam- 
ilies settled near the Tabernacle to support its services, and 
with might and main he urged and planned for removal until 
the inertia of the church was overcome. 

At a meeting of the society, held June 13, 1855, it was voted 
to change the location of the place of worship; and at meef> 
ings held in the following November the trustees were au- 
thorized to provide a site for a new church edifice in the upper 
part of the city, to purchase the church then building at the 
corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street if satisfactory 
terms could be had, or to secure lots on the southwest corner 
of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street if that seemed 
more desirable. A Building Committee of three from the so- 
ciety was appointed to be associated with the trustees, and 
permission was granted to the trustees to issue bonds, secured 
by mortgage if necessary, to an amount not exceeding $30,000, 
to pay for this, the amount to be refunded within three years 
by the sale of pews in the new church. The pastor also was 
given authority to devote half his Sabbath services to the 
new enterprise, provided a competent assistant could be 
secured. 

In 1853 the church property had been offered for sale at 
$150,000, and the subject of removal and a new site was dis- 
cussed and referred to committees from time to time until 
February, 1857, when the Tabernacle property was sold to 
Mr. J. J. Phelps for $122,000. The question of a site then be- 
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came pressing. Tenth Street, near Broadway, was considered 
favorably by many, but another Congregational body, the 
Church of the Puritans, under the charge of Dr. George B. 
Cheever, worshipped on Union Square, and it seemed wiser 
to remove still farther from the old location. A committee 
appointed by the Board of Trustees, consisting of Messrs. 
Thomas Ritter, Israel Minor, and the pastor, recommended a 
position either on the southwest corner of Madison Avenue 
and Thirty-fourth Street or the present site. The trustees 
voted in favor of the latter, and their decision met with the 
approval of the society, April 6, 1857. This site, at the inter- 
section of Broadway, Sixth Avenue, and Thirty-fourth Street, 
nearly three miles north of the old location, was purchased, 
eight lots from Messrs. Randolph and Skidmore, for $62,500, 
and two lots on Thirty-fourth Street from C. W. Thomas for 
$16,000. The northern portion of the lot on Sixth Avenue 
they sold, later, for $33,000. 

On Sunday, April 26th, the church was opened for divine 
service for the last time. It was a memorable occasion. 
Former attendants and members of the church came back for 
the day to attend the reunions, of the Pitts Bible Class at nine 
o'clock in the morning, of Sunday-school and mission-schools 
in the afternoon. The afternoon service had been discontinued 
since 1855. Even the choir called in its old members, and, 
in the evening, more than a hundred voices joined in the 
anthems, one of which had been composed for the occasion by 
Mr. William B. Bradbury, one of the four choristers who, 
during the seventeen years since the founding of the church, 
had directed its music. Three of the four were present and 
took turns in leading the service of song. During the morn- 
ing exercises children were presented for baptism, new mem- 
bers admitted to the church, and the communion administered. 
The pastor's morning text must have found a responsive echo 
in the hearts of his people : " If thy presence go not with me, 
carry us not up hence." In the evening Dr. Thompson gave 
an historical discourse, preserved in the little book entitled, 
" The Last Sabbath in Broadway Tabernacle." Four thou- 
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sand people remained in attentive, almost breathless, silence 
during the two hours and a half that the services continued. 
Hundreds went away unable to gain admission. After the 
closing anthem the vast audience arose as the organist began 
the tune of Old Hundred and joined in the Doxology (117th 
Psalm), "From all who dwell below the skies." 

" Even when the choir had sung its last song of praise and the organ 
had pealed its last note, the people seemed loth to leave for the last time 
this place where they had so often assembled in the great congregation." * 

During the two years that intervened between the giving 
up of the old house of worship and the completion of the new, 
the church held its services in the city assembly rooms, Hope 
Chapel on Broadway, the Chapel of the Home for the Friend- 
less on East Twenty-ninth Street — familiarly called the 
" Home Chapel " — and in the chapel of the new building on 
Thirty-fourth Street. It was arranged that the prayer-meet- 
ing and lecture should be held on alternate Friday evenings 
in the chapel of the New York University, and a study was 
secured for Dr. Thompson in the same building. It was his 
task to keep the church from disintegration, to hold together 
those members who could be persuaded to cast in their lot 
with the new enterprise, and to draw together a congregation 
from the neighborhood, so that when the building was ready 
for occupancy, the house might be full. Notwithstanding its 
migrations, the church, which had dwindled from a member- 
ship of four hundred and nine in 1848 to two hundred and 
seventy in 1857, began at once to gain, and, March 1, 1859, 
nearly two months before the dedication of the new house of 
worship, the church numbered three hundred and thirty-six 
members. From that time on, the increase was steady and 
rapid. Ten years later there were five hundred and fifty-five 
names on the church roll. 

There had been changes suggested from time to time in the 
Confession of Faith, the Covenant, the Form of Admission to 
the Church, and its Standing Rules, all of which were in the 

* Last Sabbath in the Broadway Tabernacle. 



From the Old to the New Tabernacle 

line of greater simplicity and less severity. There was one 
solemn warning used for years when new members were re- 
ceived into the church, " Wo, wo to the person who offends a 
whole church," that must have been a veritable stumbling-block 
in the way of such pilgrims as must " go softly," like Mr. Fear- 
ing, Mr. Despondency and his daughter Much Afraid. This 
anathema was retained for several years after the question of 
its omission had been referred to the Church Committee. Some 
changes, however, were made before the printing of every 
manual, that of 1846, 1855, i860, until 1866; but from that 
date the forms and rules remained almost intact not only dur- 
ing the after years of Dr. Thompson's ministry, but throughout 
the whole of Dr. Taylor's pastorate. It was not until Dr. Stim- 
son began his ministry that Permanent Rule 7, that discrimi- 
nated against women, denying them voice or vote in settling 
questions that concerned the church, was so altered as to give 
the right to both sexes by substituting the word adult for male. 
Other changes that first appeared in the year-book of 1893 were 
the revival of the Absentee Roll, Permanent Rule 6, and some 
enrichment of the service of admission to the church, notably, 
the recognition of the work of the Holy Spirit in regenerating 
the heart, and of the duty of members of the church to con- 
tribute their share toward its support. 

In selecting an architect for the new structure the choice of 
the Building Committee lay between Mr. Upjohn, the architect 
of Trinity Church, New York, and of Dr. Storrs's Church, in 
Brooklyn, and Mr. Leopold Eidlitz ; their final decision was in 
favor of the latter, and Mr. Eidlitz's plans and estimates were 
accepted by the society, July 17, 1857, on condition that the 
church could be built for $73,000; the building and architect 
fees not to exceed $75,000. The corner-stone was laid on the 
following Christmas Day, at two o'clock, by the pastor. The 
assisting clergymen were the Reverend Drs. Cheever, Burchard, 
Vermilye, Budington, Rufus W. Clark, and Badger. The music 
was led by Mr. F. H. Nash. In the corner-stone, according to 
the society records, Dr. Thompson deposited a leaden box con- 
taining copies of the Holy Bible, Church Psalmist, the church 
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manuals, reports of the various benevolent societies, the various 
religious and secular papers of the city, the discourse of Dr. 
Thompson commemorative of "the late Dr. Lansing," and a 
copy of " The Last Sabbath in the Broadway Tabernacle," and 
a copper plate containing the following inscription : 

The Broadway Tabernacle Church and Society, 
Organized July 6, 1840, 
after the Congregational order of New England, erect this 
their second house of worship 

a.d. 1857-8. 
Leopold Eidlitz — Architect. 

BUILDING COMMITTEE: 

Myron J. Frisbie, Chairman, William G. West, 

Israel Minor, Treasurer, Thomas Ritter, 

Samuel Holmes, Secretary, John Gray, 

James Smith. 

Corner-stone laid December 25, 1857. 

Officers of church and society, 1857-8, Rev'd Joseph P. 
Thompson, D.D., pastor. 

Deacons : 
Henry Whittlesey, George Walker, 

Isaac Minor, Matthew W. Stone, Jr. 

Church Clerk: 
William W. Fessenden. 

Trustees of Society: 
John Gray, Chairman, Thomas Ritter, 

Samuel Holmes, Secretary, William G. West, 

Israel Minor, James Smith. 

An Historical Sketch of the Society and other documents 

were added to the box, which, after being lowered to its place, 

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was covered by the stone, the pastor using a silver trowel pre- 
sented by the architect and builders. The services concluded 
with the singing of the doxology. 

The Tabernacle was built upon a lot measuring a hundred 
feet on Sixth Avenue by a hundred and fifty on Thirty-fourth 
Street, the building being eighty-nine feet six inches front 
and one hundred and fifty deep, including the chapel in the 
rear, under the same roof. The main audience-room is sev- 
enty-six feet wide by ninety feet in depth, exclusive of the 
recess for the pulpit. The great organ, back of the pulpit, 
was built by Messrs. Ferris & Co. The building stone was 
Little Falls rubble, the dimension stone and porches being of 
cream-colored New Brunswick stone. The style chosen for 
the building, architecturally, was perpendicular Gothic, and on 
either side of the nave, supporting the pointed arches of the 
clear-story, were three large pillars of cream-colored stone, 
which have since been removed. The house seats about 1,600 
persons; the chapel, twenty-eight feet by eighty-five, seats 
nearly five hundred. 

For the pastor's use, on the north side of the church, was 
built a reception-room on the lower floor, and, above, a study 
with book-shelves and closets and an additional library with 
accommodations for books, drawers, and maps, all most con- 
veniently planned for Dr. Thompson's Oriental and geograph- 
ical studies. 

The building was erected by Mr. Marc Eidlitz, mason, and 
Mr. Thomas Wilson, carpenter, and, after its completion, the 
society gave a special vote of thanks to Deacon Israel Minor 
not only for many years of helpful service and efficient and 
frequent aid in pecuniary difficulties, but especially for the 
time and attention given by him to the building of the new 
church edifice. 

The house was opened for public worship April 24, 1859. 
Dr. Badger, Secretary of the Home Missionary Society, of- 
fered prayer; the congregation sang William Cullen Bryant's 
dedicatory hymn, 

" O Thou whose own vast temple stands," ... j 

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and Professor Edwards A. Park, of Andover Theological 
Seminary, preached the sermon. The pastor then made an 
historical statement which closed as follows: 

" This house which is founded throughout upon the native rock, is 
built of the best materials and in the most substantial manner. During 
all the progress of the work, the Trustees and Building Committee 
having availed themselves of the best professional skill, have given to 
it their active and patient superintendence, and with conscientious 
fidelity have discharged the responsibility committed to them. The 
church and society have in all proper ways co-operated in the work, 
and everyone has contributed a part; the Ladies' Circle with the fruits 
of their pleasant toil, have provided the furniture of this pulpit and 
its platform, as well as that of the social rooms in the chapel. The 
house now furnished for the worship of God in every particular except 
the organ has been completed without accident to life or limb. 

" It does not accord with our views of worship under the Christian 
dispensation nor with the usages of our body to attach sanctity to a 
material structure. But it does accord with the inmost sense of pro- 
priety and with the devout sentiment of Christian gratitude, and it has 
also the warrant of Scripture, that we should set apart with due solem- 
nity the place in which we and our children shall worship God, and 
should hallow it in our thoughts and associations. Now therefore, O 
ye people, blessed of the Lord, I would call upon you to arise and join 
with me in offering this new temple to the service of the Triune God 
— the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. We bring to God with 
reverence and gratitude this house of prayer and praise, beseeching him 
to hallow it with his presence in our assemblies and his blessing upon 
our worship. We dedicate these walls to the uses of a church of Christ. 
We dedicate these seats for the solemn and joyful convocations of 
God's people in the reverent worship of his name and the devout hear- 
ing of his Word. We dedicate this choir to the service of song in the 
house of the Lord. We dedicate this pulpit to the preaching of Christ 
and him crucified ; and this table of communion to that high and sacred 
service whereby we do show forth the Lord's death till he come. May 
he whose glory fills the heavens, condescend to meet his people in 
this house. May Christ here build in his temple new and living stones. 
May the Holy Spirit here bless the Word unto sanctification and eternal 
life. May our children and our children's children here worship in the 
beauty of holiness, when we shall slumber in the dust. And when our 
earthly house of this Tabernacle shall be dissolved may we enter upon 
a purer, nobler worship in that city where the Lord God Almighty and 
the Lamb are the temple of it. And to the King Eternal, Immortal, 
Invisible, the only wise God be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus 
throughout all ages, world without end, Amen." 
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The prayer of dedication was then offered by the pastor, 
after which an anthem, the words of which had been arranged 
by Dr. Thompson and the music composed by Mr. William 
B. Bradbury, was sung by a select choir. The service was 
concluded with the doxology and benediction. There was 
also an afternoon service at which the Rev. Dr. Storrs, of 
Brooklyn, preached on the topic, " The Assembly of Chris- 
tians, the Temple of God," and the usual evening service, con- 
ducted by the pastor, whose subject was " Preaching the Gos- 
pel the Grand Function of the Minister." These discourses 
were published together in a book issued soon after the dedica- 
tion of the church. 

At the completion of the new Tabernacle there was a debt 
upon the building of $65,000 ; but, instead of selling the pews 
as had at first been proposed, it was resolved that there should 
be no private ownership in the building, so the pews were 
rented at auction and the trustees decided to carry the debt 
until arrangements could be made for removing it. The rec- 
ords of the Church Committee state that the committee " met 
February 13, 1863," and by vote authorized a collection to 
be taken on the next Sabbath toward the debt of the society, 
and Dr. Thompson was requested." to beg handsomely in his 
usual way for the same." Twenty-five thousand dollars was 
raised by this effort, and the following year, by a renewed 
subscription consummated on the second Sabbath in May, 
they raised the remaining sum of $40,000 and cancelled every 
claim upon the property. Besides this the running expenses 
of the church had been liberally provided for, and by 1864, 
through a gradual increase, the pastor's salary had been raised 
to $5,000. 

One remarkable addition to the church took place in 1861. 
The Church of the Puritans, under the ministerial charge of 
that abolition war-horse, Dr. George B. Cheever, used severe 
measures with certain of its deacons and members who dis- 
approved of their pastor's methods. They were dismissed to 
other churches, without recommendation, and the aggrieved 
members called an ex parte council which gave them such 
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redress as was in its power. This was in 1859. Two years 
later another council was called by seventy-six members, a 
much larger number than before, who were in like condem- 
nation, and had other serious matters of complaint. This 
council recommended the churches to withdraw fellowship 
from the Church of the Puritans, as its acts were uncongrega- 
tional, and recognized those calling this ex parte council as 
worthy members of the Church of Christ. About forty of 
their number united with the Broadway Tabernacle. Dr. 
Cheever, with his church, joined the Presbyterian body. 

In temporal and spiritual affairs and in many good works 
the church was prosperous. But that which marked Dr. 
Thompson's pastorate most notably, and brought the Broad- 
way Tabernacle prominently before the country at large, was 
the heroic stand taken by him and his people with him against 
slavery and in support of the Union. Dr. Thompson, with 
all his mental and social culture and refinement, was in hearty 
sympathy with the masses. One ringing sentence from the 
last sermon preached in the old Tabernacle shows his attitude 
definitely : 

" The location we have chosen is central for all classes and I pray 
God daily that this church and Society may be preserved from that 
unchristian and suicidal policy that excludes the poor from the house 
of God, that gauges men in the church by their pew-rates; and that 
makes the income of the pews a test of the principles, that should be 
uttered from the pulpit, ... I trust never to meet this church in 
a so-called house of God where no place is found for the poor and no 
prayer is heard for the slave." 

The italics are his own. 

Though not in the ranks of so-called Abolitionists, Dr. 
Thompson was no laggard in anti-slavery activities. He took 
part in them from religious principle, and his editorial posi- 
tion gave him a coign of vantage from which to influence 
Christian men, and the ministry especially, as he labored to 
bring the churches up to his standard of opposition to slavery 
on moral grounds. More tha*i once he invited a colored min- 
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ister to preach, in his pulpit, against slavery, heedless of de- 
murring conservatives. He became especially conspicuous in 
this movement by his opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law. 
He asserted that such a law could not be binding on the con- 
science, and therefore had no valid authority over the fugi- 
tive. Both press and pulpit rushed into violent controversy 
with him, but he had the courage of his convictions and his 
spirit kindled with discussion. He was not to be intimidated 
by opposition, but declared that whatever the consequences 
the fugitive should be sheltered, fed, and aided in his flight 
in the name of humanity and of God, and his people sup- 
ported him and shared in his reproach. Anti-slavery meet- 
ings in the church were broken up by angry mobs, and once, 
during the war, he was shot at, in his pulpit, by a half-crazed 
fanatic. The site of the church became known as " Liberty 
Corner." 

When Fort Sumter was fired on and war broke out, his 
patriotism blazed afresh. During the war it was the key- 
note of his discourses that the duty of citizens was to pro- 
claim and establish political liberty throughout the land with- 
out distinction of color, and to prosecute vigorously the war 
that had been forced upon them. He would discuss such 
topics as " How to build a nation," " Revolution against a 
free government not a right, but a crime," on Sunday even- 
ings in his effort to develop patriotic citizenship, making use 
of flags and a band of music to draw in the people ; but when 
some fervid utterance called forth applause he would stay the 
demonstration with the uplifted hand, reminding his hearers 
that they were in the house of God. When Lincoln was assas- 
sinated he delivered a notable eulogy before the Union League 
Club. This club and the Loyal Publication Society issued sev- 
eral of his addresses, during the war, for general circulation. 

In the historical sermon preached at the close of his long 
pastorate, Dr. Thompson gives a thrilling account of those 
days of strife and turmoil, and quotes a few of those pulpit 
prophecies : 

" Slavery must go down ; but this nation, like Rome, may first go 
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down in the struggle " ( 1856) . " It will be no marvel if our children 
see a prostrate commerce, a servile insurrection or a civil war" (1854), 

and, as early as 185 1: 

" Either Slavery must go down voluntarily, speedily, peaceably, under 
the moral influence of the gospel, or Slavery or Liberty will one day 
go down in blood." 

Dr. Thompson said further of the Tabernacle, during the 
civil war: 

" This church was behind no other body, religious or secular, in 
patriotic zeal and sacrifice for the defence of the nation. From its 
congregation five-and-twenty enlisted in the army: five of these died 
in the service, of whom two were brought home to be buried lovingly 
from the bosom of the Church. The Sanitary, Union, and Christian 
Commissions had its constant and energetic support; the great Fairs 
were largely officered and equipped from the women of this congrega- 
tion. By solemn vote and prayer you sent your pastor to minister in 
your name upon the battle-fields of Tennessee; and you greeted his 
return with fresh outpourings of your bounty for the soldiers; again 
and again you draped organ and pulpit with flags and made this a 
rallying-ground for Liberty and Union under the uplifted banner of the 
cross; and when all was over you held within these walls a majestic 
requiem for three hundred thousand dead. 

" But there was one incident of the war which signalized the loyal 
devotion of this church to country and to Christ. It was in that darkest 
hour when delays and defeats had so blighted hope that treason came 
out of its lurking places in the North and hissed its venom at the Gov- 
ernment; when the President hesitated either to enforce the draft or 
to call for volunteers; and when timid conservatives began to say, 
' We had better give it up and make terms.' Your pastor came into 
the pulpit with a plea for Christian manhood, saying, ' Of what avail 
are our churches, if we shall no longer have a government or a coun- 
try, let the churches save both. Let this church call for volunteers; 
equip a regiment and put it into the field to show that we will never 
give it up.' At the close of the service someone called upon the con- 
gregation to remain; proposed a subscription for a church regiment; 
and before night of that memorable Sabbath, upwards of thirty thou- 
sand dollars were laid upon this altar. Two women sent me each 
five hundred dollars, saying, 'We cannot go; put men in our stead.'* 
That action went like a flash of electricity through the land ; it brought 
letters of thanks from Senators at Washington, from members of the 
* One of these was Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts. 

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Cabinet, from generals in the field. It cheered the burdened heart of 
the President and gave new courage to his indomitable Minister of 
War. Though the immediate action of the Government superseded 
this new recruiting office, yet the spontaneous and magnanimous act of 
that day will forever stand as the proudest memento of our Christian 
patriotism." 

In behalf of the Sanitary Commission Dr. Thompson went 
for weeks with the consent of his church through the Middle 
and Western States, speaking every night to vast audiences 
and drawing out liberal contributions from his hearers. He 
received a commission from the New York Branch of the 
Christian Commission, as did many other New York clergy- 
men, and did service in the front, carrying hospital stores, min- 
istering to the comfort of the wounded, and speaking words 
of Christian hope; while for the Union Commission he ad- 
dressed large meetings in Washington and elsewhere, and 
gathered again and again large contributions from the Taber- 
nacle Church for Union refugees. 

But the severest test of Dr. Thompson's patriotism, his 
crowning sacrifice for the cause of liberty, was the giving up 
to the service of his country of his oldest son, a student in 
Andover and a young man of rare promise, John Hanson 
Thompson. He enlisted, with his father's consent, May 25, 
1862, and died of typhoid pneumonia, March 16, 1863. In 
those ten months of service by his ready response to every 
call of duty he had proved how " nigh is grandeur to our 
dust." He was described by one of his comrades as " always 
quiet and gentle, looked as if he couldn't stand it, he was so 
slim; never said much, but always did it." At the request 
of his army associates, as well as of the members of Dr. 
Thompson's Young Men's Bible Class, his father wrote " The 
Sergeant's Memorial," which had a wide circulation, especially 
in the army. The father hastened to his son as soon as he 
learned of his serious illness, but reached the camp too late 
to find him living. From the strain and exposure of these 
Southern journeys and labors for the soldiers Dr. Thompson 
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During this pastorate the charities of the church covered a 
wide range. Dr. Thompson's international interests put him 
in touch with Christian work all over the world. The reg- 
ular scheme of church benevolences for a series of years was 
but slightly varied from this, adopted in 1859. Contributions : 
January, Seaman's Friend Society; March, Home Missions; 
May, Congregational Union; June, New York Bible Society; 
September, Tract Society (Boston) ; October, Education in 
the West; November, Foreign Missions. It was, perhaps, 
specified that the money raised for the educational work 
should be given to Oberlin, and for years the American Tract 
Society was passed over because of its lack of moral courage 
in the matter of slavery. Many special causes were presented 
in the course of the year. It might be that a colored man 
was permitted to stand at the door of the lecture-room Fri- 
day evening to take such sums as should be given him, or a 
colored woman to receive a collection to free her children 
from slavery. The records tell of a collection for aid of suf- 
ferers in Syria, the pastor to preach on the subject; a collec- 
tion for Hayti; for suffering fellow-citizens in Kansas, for 
the Evangelical Society of Geneva, the Spanish Evangelical 
Society, for freed people on the banks of the Mississippi, and of 
many another object, outside denominational bounds, aided by 
the church. 

Before the excitement of the Civil War had died away the 
pastor reorganized the departments of church work, taking 
some hints from the methods of his Episcopal brethren, espe- 
cially from Dr. Tyng's efficient organization. He established 
a Bible class for the women of his congregation, attended by 
from twenty-five to forty, that is still a precious memory to 
those who availed themselves of it. Some of his apt pleasan- 
tries are yet quoted; as when in his talks on Egypt and the 
Holy Land (for they began with the Old Testament) many 
exclaimed wonderingly, " I never heard of such a thing ; " 
their teacher responded, " My knowledge is not to be abashed 
by your ignorance." He illustrated the grip of the Mosaic 
law on the New England conscience by the story of a deacon 
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who met him after morning service, in a church where he was 
preaching as a stranger, and said, " If it were not the Sab- 
bath I should ask you home to dine with me." Dr. Thomp- 
son replied : " Since a better man than I once dined on the 
Sabbath with a worse man than you, I should not refuse if 
you asked me." One season some proposed that they should 
study from Jeremiah; but Dr. Thompson said it was too sad 
a portion of the Bible for them. He was a cheerful man who, 
as he used to say, always endeavored to do the possible and 
accept the inevitable. When he went abroad the class was 
taught by Dr. William H. Thomson, whose success as a 
Bible teacher is known far beyond the limits of the Taber- 
nacle Church. Dr. Thompson spent many hours each week 
in preparation for this class. He opened it with prayer, and 
at its close read one of the meditations afterward published 
in his " Home Worship." A member of the class writes : 
" His opening prayer always seemed to breathe peace. The 
remembrance is strong, through all the years, of the hush that 
came to the spirit by his voice in prayer." When Dr. Thomp- 
son left New York, for a residence in Berlin, his Bible class 
sent him a basket of flowers with a note containing a check 
for $100 for the purchase of books, that they might still be 
associated with him in his Biblical studies. His acknowledg- 
ment, written from Liverpool and signed " Your loving 
teacher," has been preserved for thirty years by one of his 
grateful pupils. 

Dr. Thompson's marvellous capacity for work has already 
been noted. The following is the programme of one of his 
Mondays, usually a pastor's rest day, in 1868. Till about ten 
in the morning he remained in the church office to receive 
callers, notice of this being given from the pulpit Sunday. 
The usual Monday Ministers' Meeting followed. Early in the 
afternoon he gave one of his course of lectures on Palestine 
at Rutgers' Female College, met his Bible class at three 
o'clock, and, later, conducted a funeral — four of these being 
regular engagements. Dr. Bacon called him the busiest man 
he ever knew, "the most diligent to do with his might what- 
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soever his hands, reaching in every direction, could find to 
do," and Professor Austin Phelps, who once spent a month 
in his New York home, writing for the Congregationalist of 
Dr. Thompson after his death, says of his " wonderful work- 
ing power," that at one time the severity, at another the variety, 
of his labors excited astonishment. 

After a week of multiplied engagements, all systematized 
and planned for by clock work, Professor Phelps assumed that 
the doctor would give his people an old sermon on Sunday 
morning. He says: 

" At the close of the morning service I fancied that my conjecture 
had proved true. He had preached a sermon written in full ; elaborate, 
finished, logical, illustrative, ornate — a sermon which was like himself 
a variegated structure, one of the most faultless discourses that I have 
ever heard — on the doctrine of the Trinity ! My copious notes of that 
sermon exist among my papers to this day. I brought it home with 
me to exhibit to my pupils as a model of a scholarly, yet a popular, 
sermon on that very difficult theme. The interest of his audience in 
it was a refreshing answer to the objections to doctrinal preaching. 

" Judge of my surprise at learning, when I met him at the dining 
hour, that the entire plan of that discourse had been concocted on the 
previous Sunday evening, and the whole of it had been written in the 
first four mornings of the following days. It was a sermon such as 
the Rev. John M. Mason, D.D., a celebrated pastor in New York in 
the olden times, if he could ever have written it would have spent a 
month in the writing, as he advised his younger brethren to do in dis- 
coursing on similar subjects." 

Dr. Thompson was in close touch with Andover; Professor 
Park's stately form was a familiar figure in his pulpit, and 
Professor Phelps was a close personal friend. As late as 
1 87 1 he delivered a course of lectures on Egyptology before 
the Andover Seminary. 

But in attending to outside, large affairs Dr. Thompson did 
not overlook the individual interests of his people. He was 
solicitous about the small details of their secular life, and gave 
time and thought for their service. He begged a lady of 
his church to patronize a sister member who was setting up 
a little thread and needle store in her neighborhood; he in- 
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terested himself in the success of a school kept by another 
member; still another who conducted a boarding-house was 
filled with gratitude for his kind interest and sympathy when 
she suffered bereavement. He even gave German lessons to 
a member of his church and choir, who with a friend studied 
under his direction. 

When sickness and death visited his people, Dr. Thompson's 
tenderness never failed. One who left the church at the out- 
break of the war because her husband, a Southern sympathizer, 
refused to sit under his ministry, still speaks with gratitude 
of Dr. Thompson's tender pastoral care in times of sorrow, 
the memory of which has led her, more than once, when in 
Berlin, to seek his burying-place in the Jerusalem Church-yard. 

Premonitions of failing health led Dr. Thompson, in 1866, 
to seek rest abroad. During his absence, instead of hearing 
a variety of preachers, the church engaged Professor Roswell 
D. Hitchcock to supply the pulpit. He was a brilliant and im- 
pressive preacher, and from this time, as if they had found 
in him an associate pastor, the church turned naturally to Dr. 
Hitchcock when Dr. Thompson was away. 

It was not until October 22, 1871, that Dr. Thompson re- 
signed his charge. The announcement came with a shock upon 
his people, as he had been reticent in regard to his health. 
His doctors, however, insisted that he should withdraw from 
all public responsibilities and he himself could no longer sat- 
isfy his conscience in the discharge of pastoral duties when 
life was constant care, almost a constant suffering, and when 
unmistakable symptoms threatened the brain. 

The church recognized at once the inevitableness of the 
separation, and immediately appointed a committee consisting 
of Messrs. Caleb B. Knevals, Levi M. Bates, Marshall O. Rob- 
erts, William Henry Smith, and John Gray, to raise from the 
church and society a sum not less than $30,000 to be pre- 
sented to their retiring pastor on the anniversary of his instal- 
lation. Besides this a voluntary subscription of $20,925 was 
at once taken, which was afterward raised to $25,000, mak- 
ing the church's provision for its pastor's future amount to 
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$55,000. The council called by the church and pastor to con- 
sider his resignation met November 8th, with Dr. Leonard 
Bacon as moderator, and it was agreed that the resignation 
should take effect November 15, 1871. 

Dr. Thompson preached his farewell historical sermon No- 
vember 12th, and his acknowledgment of the provision made 
for his temporal support was read before the society Novem- 
ber 22d. " Was there ever before just such a parting between 
a pastor and his flock ? " he said. " All the tender and grate- 
ful tribute which Death is accustomed to call forth, it is per- 
mitted me to receive, and at the same time to enter upon a 
new life of hope." 

The following letter was written the day his resignation 
took effect: 

New York, November 15, 1871. 

My dear Mr. Coffin: Will you be so good as to request 
for me a letter of dismission from the Broadway Tabernacle 
Church to the Dom-Kirche, Berlin, Prussia? 

It pains me deeply to sever the last tie of formal connec- 
tion with the church of my love, my hope, my joy, my life; 
but my only ecclesiastical standing now is in my church mem- 
bership, and my view is that this should always be main- 
tained in the place where one resides. I do not expect ever 
to be able to take up my residence again in New York. There 
is talk of organizing an American church in Berlin, and I 
wish to be ready to do my part as a private member. Mean- 
time I take a letter to an evangelical church. 

In sacrificing the sentiment of a formal union I shall realize 
more fully the strength of the spiritual tie that binds us in 
Christ. Truly yours, 

Joseph P. Thompson. 

Relieved of temporal anxieties through the generosity of 
his people, Dr. Thompson withdrew to Berlin, Germany, where 
he planned to spend his remaining years of life in the quiet 
pursuit of Oriental study. He had in mind a work upon Egypt 
for which he had made copious notes, but the exigencies of 
pressing public topics prevented his carrying out the work. 
He became the leading international representative of America 
in Europe. He devoted all the time his health would permit 
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him to work, to the service of his country and his country- 
men abroad, to the reform and codification of the laws of 
nations, to advance and support the honor, the policy, and 
the actions of his country abroad. In the words of Dr. Bacon, 
written after his death: 

" The most remarkable illustration of dominancy of the mind over 
the enfeebled and wearied body which he ever gave is that which he 
has shown in these last years when with strength almost gone and 
brain half broken he has still been interpreting Germany to this coun- 
try, this country to Germany and both to England. Perhaps no other 
equal period of his life has been more full of useful labor." 

In August, 1879, while in London, where he had gone with 
a view of attending the meeting of the Association for the 
Reform and Codification of the Laws of Nations, he was pros- 
trated with sudden illness. His wife hurried to his bedside, 
and at his urgent request he was taken back, by slow and 
cautious stages, to his home in Berlin. At first there seemed 
to be temporary gain, and on his sixtieth birthday he tele- 
graphed to his son in America, " Creeping upward slowly. 
Blessings on my children. Sixty." After that he declined 
gradually. Almost his last act had been to prepare and for- 
ward to the Evangelical Alliance, at Basle, an eloquent pro- 
test against religious persecution in Austria. Being told that 
the Alliance had adopted his memorial to the Emperor of 
Austria, he looked down at his paralyzed arm and said, " Given 
one more stroke for liberty with this right hand ! " After 
several weeks of pain and restlessness came two or three days 
of unconsciousness, and on the morning of September 20th, 
the end. His wife, his youngest son, Dr. William Gilman 
Thompson, and his wife's brother, Rev. Dr. Edward W. Gil- 
man, were with him at the last, and Dr. Gilman remained to 
conduct the funeral service. 

The flag of his country draped the study walls. 
" Dead he lay among his books, 
The peace of God was in his looks ; " 

crowns of flowers, palm branches, and growing plants sur- 
rounded him. Statesmen, professors, and diplomats, and many 
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American residents to whom he had proved a friend, gath- 
ered to pay the last service to the dead. His body rests in 
the Jerusalem Church-yard not far from the grave of Mendels- 
sohn, under the shade of lindens and locusts. 

Dr. Thompson left four children — two sons and two daugh- 
ters — but one of whom, Dr. William G. Thompson, is now 
living. His wife returned to America, and was until her death, 
December 24, 1892, connected with the Tabernacle Church. 
His library of Oriental and archaeological works, especially 
valuable in the department of Egyptology, he gave to the 
American Oriental Society, of which he was a member. 

Very many learned, patriotic, benevolent, and religious so- 
cieties with which he had been connected, both in Europe and 
America, offered resolutions of respect for his memory,* and 
the press, secular and religious, said many true and kind 
things in his praise. A tablet was set up in the Tabernacle 
to his memory, but his most lasting memorial was written 
in the hearts and the lives of his people. 

"J. P. T.t 
" Restless brain and dauntless will, 

Heart that throbbed with hope and pride, 
Mind that bent to drink its fill 
Every font of truth beside. 

" Eyes emitting starry gleams 

From the depths wherein they dwelt, 
Lips on which a thousand themes 
Into eloquence would melt. 

" Hand of hero, scholar, friend 
Ready aye with pen and deed 
Truth to champion, or to lend 
Help to weakness or to need. 

" Brave and tender, frank and pure, 
Such was he the well beloved, 
Whom our love shall hold secure 
Though from outward sight removed." 
* Appendix, I. 

f Verses by the Rev. Edwin Johnson, member of the Broadway Tabernacle 
Church, 1847-1851. Published in the New York Observer. 
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CHAPTER VII. 
THE THIRD PASTOR, WILLIAM MACKERGO TAYLOR. 

Dr. Thompson left a united church of five hundred and 
seventy-eight members, with well and newly organized de- 
partments and charities, and a City Mission, Bethany, already 
established in Northwestern Hall, at the corner of Thirty- 
eighth Street and Ninth Avenue. 

The church made no delay in choosing his successor. The 
previous April the Rev. William M. Taylor, pastor of the 
United Presbyterian Church, Derby Road, Bootle, near Liver- 
pool, England, had taken for more than two months the pas- 
toral work of Dr. Storrs of Brooklyn. Mr. A. Baxter, an 
officer in Dr. Storrs's church, was the American head of a 
business house of which Mrs. Taylor's brother was the Eng- 
lish partner. Mr. Baxter, when visiting in his partner's home, 
had met Mr. Taylor, and it was through these business men 
that a meeting had been brought about between the two clergy- 
men in Liverpool, and Mr. Taylor engaged to supply the pul- 
pit of the Church of the Pilgrims for ten weeks. Mr. Taylor 
remained during that period in Brooklyn, at the house of Mr. 
Baxter, conducting all the services as acting pastor. For ten 
Sundays the church was filled, much of the time crowded to 
its utmost capacity. Toward the end of his engagement a 
plan was set on foot to build a huge tabernacle in New York 
that should seat several thousand people, where he should be 
engaged to preach.* At the close of his work in Brooklyn 
Mr. Taylor received a presentation of plate from the congre- 
gation in appreciation of his services. 

Although Mr. Taylor had never been heard in the Broad- 
way Tabernacle, and hardly more than two or three of the 

"Harper's Weekly, July 18, 1874. 
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church had attended any service that he had conducted, his 
name and fame were well known to the church and society. 
The committee upon which was placed the responsibility of 
nominating a pastor for the church was an able one, composed 
of five of its leading men: Austin Abbott, John Gray, Caleb 
B. Knevals, J. H. Washburn, Thomas W. Whittemore. In 
its report this committee said: 

" Mr. Taylor, now the pastor of a Presbyterian church at Bootle, a 
suburb of Liverpool, visited this country the past season, and is prob- 
ably so well known by reputation to most of the church and society as 
to make it unnecessary to speak of his attractiveness and power as a 
preacher of the Gospel. Two of your committee, Messrs. Gray and 
Knevals, who have heard him, can speak upon this point. The other 
members of your committee have made careful inquiries respecting Mr. 
Taylor's qualifications among leading ministers and laymen of our own 
denomination who know him personally and have observed his labors. 
The unanimous testimony thus elicited has satisfied us that Mr. Taylor 
is not only an eloquent and attractive preacher, but a man of deep and 
earnest piety who exerts a positive and efficient influence, eminently 
successful both in the conversion of souls, the nurture of Christians, 
and the upbuilding of the church ; that his general religious views are 
in harmony with those held by this church ; that in scholarship, culture, 
and spirit he is well adapted to the congregation, and that he will be 
most cordially welcomed by the pastors and leading members of our 
sister churches as an accession of strength not only to our church, but 
to our communion." 

The committee further stated that Mr. Taylor's expressed 
pleasure with much he had seen in America the previous sum- 
mer, gave encouragement to hope that he would consider the 
call favorably. 

The church and society felt no hesitation in extending the 
invitation to Mr. Taylor. The call was formally agreed upon 
and given in November, 1871. Dr. Thompson strongly fa- 
vored the choice and stood ready to use his influence with the 
pastor elect, and he willingly embraced the opportunity to do 
one more service for the people of his love. The society re- 
quested him to stop in Liverpool on his way to Berlin and 
urge and enforce their call upon the man they had chosen to 



The Third Pastor, William Mackergo Taylor 

be his successor. Mr. Taylor naturally hesitated to accept the 
charge of a church none of whose members were personally 
known to him; but his interviews with Dr. Thompson made 
the way much clearer. It was a delicate task for Dr. Thomp- 
son to undertake, but no one could have done it better, and 
in his formal letter of acceptance, written on December 29, 
1871, Mr. Taylor referred to Dr. Thompson's message and 
the manner of its delivery: 

" The frank, cordial, and brotherly manner in which he dealt with me 
will never fade from my remembrance ; and now that I have consented 
to take his place, his visit will always be in my mind like the assurance 
of God to Joshua, when he said, ' As I was with Moses so I will be 
with thee.' " 

" It chanced — Eternal God that chance did guide." 

that many things in his late visit to America had impressed 
Mr. Taylor most favorably with respect to American people, 
churches, and institutions generally. The time of his visit 
was opportune for attendance on the General Assembly of 
the Presbyterian Church at Chicago, the anniversary of the 
American Bible Society, a social gathering of the American 
Congregational Union, the anniversary exercises of Yale Theo- 
logical Seminary and other universities, and he had the com- 
panionship of the Rev. Edward Hassan, now of Salisbury, 
late of Wavertree, a ministerial friend and associate who had 
accompanied him from Liverpool. Their homeward journey 
had been made by way of Boston, Albany, Saratoga, Niagara, 
Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec, and in several of 
these towns public religious services had been held which the 
visitors attended. At Albany they had been met by a member 
of the Church of the Pilgrims (with his daughter), who 
claimed the privilege of being their host until they reached 
the Canada side at Niagara. Arriving at their hotel near mid- 
night, Mr. Hassan reports that: 

" after sitting for a short time on the balcony of the hotel, engaged 
in quiet, grateful conversation within sound of the Falls and awe- 
stricken by our general surroundings, it was suggested that we should 
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join in prayer. Dr. Taylor led in prayer, a never-to-be-forgotten prayer 
— simple in its terms, but comprehensive, fervent, blending thanksgiving 
for the loving-kindness and tender mercy which had enriched and 
blessed our lives hitherto, and supplications for the guidance and bless- 
ings of Almighty God in our diverse ways for the future: a prayer 
abundantly answered in the experience of all." 

These and many other pleasant impressions had rendered 
Mr. Taylor kindly disposed to such overtures as Dr. Thomp- 
son made in behalf of the Tabernacle Church, and his experi- 
ences in Liverpool had fitted him for responsibilities such as 
life in New York was sure to bring. He said in relation to 
the call: 

" When the invitation came to me and I laid it before my officers they 
said : ' There is no place in England for which we should give you up, 
but we dare not hinder you from taking such work as that in New York.' 
Men who said this said it with tears standing in their eyes at the thought 
of parting with me." * 

The call of the Tabernacle Church Mr. Taylor accepted De- 
cember 29th. In his letter of that date he says : 

" As far as I myself am concerned, I cannot but feel slightly anxious 
when I remember that the people have never heard me, and when I 
think that they may, perhaps, be expecting from me that which I can- 
not give. Nevertheless I will come among you to preach Christ cruci- 
fied, and I am sure that I shall find that the attraction of the cross is 
as strong in New York as it is anywhere else. It will be my constant 
aim to hide myself behind my Master, and my hope is that you may in 
all my ministrations forget the minister in the importance of his mes- 
sage, ' hearing, indeed, the voice, but seeing no man.' " 

Mr. Taylor made no delay in taking up his new duties. 
He arrived in New York on March 1st, and by the second 
Sabbath of that month began his pastorate. But when, with 
wife and children, he found himself in the dreary month of 
February in mid-ocean, with his heart turning toward the 
church and the dismantled home he had left behind, and with 
absolutely no acquaintance with the people to whom he was 
going, and no knowledge of the home to which he was tak- 

* The Quiver, p. 100, December, 1888. 
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ing his household, nine souls in all, it is no wonder that this 
heart misgave him and that he passed some gloomy hours. 
But his faith was too robust to leave him long in doubt. He 
says, again : * 

" My coming ultimately was to me almost like Abraham's obedience 
to the call of God when he went out ' not knowing whither he went.' 
... I did not know the way by which He was leading me; but I 
knew Him, and the result was that I knew Him better than ever." 

At this time Mr. Taylor was in the prime of life. He was 
the son of Peter and Isobel (Mackergo) Taylor, of Kilmar- 
nock, in Ayrshire, Scotland. He was born in one of the side 
streets off King Street, Kilmarnock, on October 23, 1829. 
His father was a merchant or shopkeeper, and a member of 
the Secession Church. Both father and mother were pious 
people, possessed of remarkable intelligence, and well versed 
in the theological questions of the times. The family traced 
relationship with the Howies of Lockgoin, the lonely home of 
the Covenanters and shelter of the persecuted. Like Dr. 
Thompson, he took satisfaction in his Covenanter ancestry, and 
in later years visited the spot, and had special pleasure in tak- 
ing the various members of his family to catch inspiration from 
it. Mr. Taylor studied at the academy in his native town. 
The boy was distinguished for his love of learning and the 
rapid progress he made in almost every department. He car- 
ried off many literary honors and was very early called to be 
an assistant teacher. He graduated at the University of Glas- 
gow when he was but twenty years of age. An attic above 
his father's house was his study, and not infrequently, when 
some procession was passing or important event taking place 
in the main street, he could be seen pushing up the skylight 
window and peering over the slates, satisfied with this brief 
interruption to his work without desiring to mingle with the 
crowd. He entered the Divinity Hall of the United Presby- 
terian Church, the year after the Union, when Drs. Brown, 
Eadie, M'Michael, Harper, and Lindsay were professors. He 

*At the End of Twenty Years. Sermon preached March ij, i8q2, p. 6. 
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had great respect and veneration for these teachers, and in 
his work on the Scottish Pulpit, which has been called his 
most charming volume, he made sketches of prominent divines 
who were in their prime when he was a student ; among them 
the character and work of Drs. Brown and Eadie are lov- 
ingly depicted. In the Divinity Hall he gained distinguished 
honors and was held in high esteem by his professors and fel- 
low-students. The sessions of the Divinity Hall at that time 
were restricted to the months of August and September in 
each year, and during the intervals he was engaged in teach- 
ing and on the staff of the Kilmarnock Journal as reporter, 
and, later, as sub-editor. During his theological course he was 
under the supervision of the United Presbytery of Ayrshire. 

There were certain young friends whom he made during 
these years of ministerial training to whom he remained 
warmly attached all his days, visiting them summers, while 
taking his vacation abroad, and insuring the companionship 
of his friend the Rev. Mr. Kirkwood, of Troon, in whose pul- 
pit he appeared season after season, by the promise, " Play 
with me this week, and I will preach for you Sunday." Large 
audiences were attracted when he preached in Ayrshire on 
these annual visits, for, to the old friends, no matter what 
honors he achieved, he was to the last, always Willie Taylor. 

Mr. Taylor was licensed as preacher on September 14, 1852, 
by the United Presbytery of Ayrshire, but as early as Sep- 
tember, 1850, he had been allowed, according to the custom 
of the United Presbyterians, to preach in behalf of missions. 
That first missionary sermon, repeated many times afterward, 
and the forerunner of many other missionary pleas, was the 
means of bringing in a rich harvest for the treasury of missions. 
The amount of the collection on its first delivery delighted him, 
and he wrote gleefully to his betrothed wife that " it spake well 
for the preacher, but better for his hearers." 

As a preacher of the United Presbyterian Church Mr. Tay- 
lor at once came to the front, and after a few months re- 
ceived a call from Sanquhar and another from Kilmaurs. 
Though a much larger salary was offered by the former, he 
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refused it and was settled in Kilmaurs — an historical congre- 
gation in connection with the denomination. He was ordained 
at Kilmaurs, where his grandfather had been an elder and his 
father baptized,' on June 28, 1853. Being only two miles from 
his native city, he did not shrink from the severe ordeal to 
which a prophet in such circumstances is exposed. While 
here he married, October 4th, Miss Jessie Steedman, like him- 
self a native of Kilmarnock, one of whose brothers had been 
a fellow-student at the College and the Divinity Hall, and it 
was to the beautiful manse of Kilmaurs which he describes * 
as " one of the sweetest nooks to be seen in Scotland or any 
other country," that he led home his bride. 

It was impossible, however, that Kilmaurs could long retain 
his services. He had labored there with such zeal and success 
that the Rev. Mr. Robertson, of Irvine, called the attention of 
the newly formed United Presbyterian Church of Derby Road, 
Bootle, to his prominent abilities, and they afterward invited 
him to become their pastor. He accepted the call on October 
23, 1854: f 

" This was the scene of his labors for sixteen years. The field seemed 
decidedly unpromising. A suburb of Liverpool and the terminus of the 
Cunard Line of steamships, the families of seamen, engineers, and me- 
chanics formed the bulk of the population. No attempt at social or 
religious improvement had been made within its limits previous to Dr. 
Taylor's call to the charge of the church and he found it literally a 
field for missionary labor. The first services were held in a stable loft 
and the number of members the society could muster was only thirty, 
but under his charge the society rapidly increased, and in 1869 it wor- 
shipped in a fine stone church large enough to hold twelve hundred 
people." t 

The death of the Prince Consort occurred in December, 
1861. Dr. Taylor's sermon the following Sunday was a not- 
able one. Although the text had not been chosen nor pen 
put to paper until seven o'clock on Saturday evening, it was 

* Church Building Quarterly, April, 1875, p. 67. 

t This account of Dr. Taylor's early years is taken mainly from the Kilmar- 
nock Standard and from another Ayrshire journal. 
% Harper's Weekly, July 18, 1874. 

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written and delivered memoriter on Sunday, and was the only 
sermon on that event, preached in Liverpool, that was pub- 
lished in full by the daily press. Copies of the sermon were 
in such demand that, after a few days, it was reprinted sepa- 
rately. That sermon brought the preacher more prominently 
before the public. 

From that time Mr. Taylor showed great aptitude in seiz- 
ing upon topics that stirred the public mind. He was more 
and more sought after for special occasions by churches of 
all denominations, and his aid was eagerly claimed for re- 
ligious and philanthropic enterprises of every sort in and about 
Liverpool. The Liverpool Seaman's Friend Society, in which 
he would be naturally interested, the Town Mission, the 
Auxiliary Bible Society, and like institutions did not ask his 
help in vain. 

Possibly some of the best though least conspicuous services 
of Mr. Taylor, during his life in Liverpool, were rendered at 
the social meetings of neighbor churches. At such meetings 
the congregation would be fully represented and in its happi- 
est mood. The presence of Mr. Taylor never failed to in- 
crease the good-humor of the assembly. His speech, looked 
forward to with eagerness, always surpassed the anticipations 
of his hearers. The children would even become boisterous in 
their applause of the homely illustrations with which he en- 
forced the lessons he wished to teach. 

Dr. Taylor valued very highly the fellowship of his min- 
isterial brethren in Liverpool. In his published " Remi- 
niscences of Professor William Graham, D.D.," a devoted 
friend, he writes : 

" A remarkable body of men the non-conforming ministers 
at that time were." He particularizes and describes some of 
them and says of the association : " It was a rare treat to 
be a member of such a band, and I never knew how much 
it was to me until the Atlantic rolled between us." The sim- 
ple objects of the " Club," as it was called, Dr. Taylor set 
forth as follows : " There were no papers read and no dis- 
cussions carried on, but, though now and then we talked of 
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The Third Pastor, William Mackergo Taylor 

how we were to act on some great public question, the ob- 
ject we set before us was simply the enjoyment of two or 
three hours of social fellowship, and these occasions were 
greatly relished by us all." 

Dr. Taylor must have missed the social element in the more 
formal ministers' clubs this side of the ocean, where papers 
are read and discussed, and men meet to study problems rather 
than to promote friendliness. 

Many proposals came to Mr. Taylor while in Bootle, from 
one quarter and another, to change the scene of his pastoral 
labors; of course his people were likewise disturbed. So the 
invitation to the Church of the Pilgrims seemed to come as 
a relief, giving change of scene, and foreign travel without 
interference with his own church relations. No thought of 
its possible results, or that he might, within a year, be set- 
tled in the new world, seems to have crossed his mind.* As 
has been said, the new pastor reached New York March 1st. 
The usual March communion service had been put off, thus 
enabling Mr. Taylor and his people to sit together at the 
Lord's table on the first Sabbath that he was with them. His 
installation took place a month later, April 9th. The council 
was composed of representatives from the Congregational 
churches of the vicinity, and ministers belonging to the New 
York and Brooklyn Conference; also to the Central Church 
of Boston, the First of Pittsfield, the Central of Philadelphia, 
the Second of Bridgeport, and Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D., of 
New Haven, and Rev. Roswell D. Hitchcock, D.D., of New 
York City. Other sister churches were represented ; the Bap- 
tist, by Rev. Thomas D. Anderson, D.D. ; the Episcopal, by 
Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr.; the Presbyterian, by Rev. John 
Hall, D.D., and Rev. Rollins A. Sawyer; the Reformed, by 
Rev. William Ormiston, D.D. ; and the United Presbyterian, 
by Rev. George D. Mathews. The sermon was preached by 
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, whose text was Mark 16 : 19, 

* In this summary of Dr. Taylor's life before coming to America I have drawn 
from a paper by Rev. Mr. Hassan and from material and information furnished 
by Dr. Taylor's daughter, Miss Isobel M. Taylor.— S. H. W. 
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20 : " So then, after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was 
received up to heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. 

"And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord 
working with them, and confirming the word with signs fol- 
lowing." 

Others who joined in the service were Rev. Leonard Bacon, 
D.D., who offered the installing prayer; Rev. Henry M. 
Storrs, D.D., who gave the charge to the pastor; Rev. Will- 
iam Ives Budington, D.D., the right hand of fellowship, and 
Rev. George B. Bacon, of Orange, N. J., who gave the charge 
to the people. 

The society had voted, the previous November, to pay Mr. 
Taylor a salary of $9,000, the same amount voted to Dr. 
Thompson in 1869, and to meet the expense of moving his 
household to New York ; but the trustees having been recently 
brought to realize the necessity of providing for their pastor 
when disabled by illness, determined to make provision be- 
forehand. Therefore, in the first year of Dr. Taylor's pas- 
torate, the society not only paid his rent and raised his salary 
to $10,000, but they secured a twenty-year endowment policy 
upon his life for $25,000; agreeing to pay the annual pre- 
mium of $1,238.11 so long as he continued their pastor. 

Both Yale and Amherst gave to Mr. Taylor, in June, 1872, 
the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and the same year the Ameri- 
can Home Missionary Society elected him to membership in 
their Executive Committee. 

It had long seemed necessary to make certain important 
changes in the Tabernacle building, and it was thought best to 
put the work through at once, so that the church should be 
in the best of order when parish activities were renewed after 
the summer vacation. In May the society voted to remove 
from the body of the house the six large stone pillars that ob- 
structed more than two hundred sittings, and the low roof 
over the aisles ; to construct a new roof ; also to decorate and 
refurnish the house and make sundry improvements in light- 
ing, heating, and ventilating. 

Churches in the vicinity proved kindly neighbors, and from 
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the time the work began, early in June, until the middle of 
July, on Sunday evenings, the Tabernacle services were held 
in the Brick Church, Thirty-seventh Street and Fifth Avenue ; 
and the morning service in Association Hall. After the sum- 
mer vacation, morning service was held in the Tabernacle 
chapel, and, Sunday evenings, the church worshipped in the 
Fourth Presbyterian Church on Thirty-fourth Street until the 
work was completed. The Tabernacle was reopened Sabbath 
morning, November 24th. The changes enlarged the seat- 
ing capacity of the house and rendered it much more cheerful, 
airy, and attractive. 

On November 24, 1869, the church had adopted a plan for 
aggressive work outside the limits of its own congregation, 
in order to utilize the energy and ability of many active Chris- 
tian men upon whom no special church responsibility rested. 
This plan was followed in a general way until 1886. By this 
arrangement a manager was elected annually for the following 
departments : Mission Schools ; Visitation of the Poor and Sick 
in mission districts ; Charitable Contributions for work in these 
departments; Strangers, with special regard to the reception 
of strangers at the church services. These managers were 
authorized each to organize a corps of assistants from such 
members of the society as would willingly co-operate in his 
department, and at the annual meeting of the church they 
were to report progress. The managers with the pastor and 
the treasurer of the church constituted a Board of Consulta- 
tion for the work of each department, and for disbursing funds 
raised for such work. The board was not authorized to enter 
upon any new mission field without the consent of the church. 
The first managers appointed were Messrs. Ranney, Bates, 
Abernethy, and Winterburn. In a short time a " Department 
of Education " was added to these " Departments of Missions 
and Charities," the special object of which was to educate 
young men for the ministry. Gradually the city-mission ener- 
gies of the church centred in the Bethany enterprise, and in 
the new Chinese Sunday-school begun in 1885. At the an- 
nual meeting of the church, held February 3, 1886, a Board 
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of Missions, consisting of a committee of three, was substituted 
for the Board of Managers, and for the Board of Missions 
that had been appointed on the organization of the Bethany- 
Church; the Department of Strangers was replaced by a Re- 
ception Committee of one, with power to appoint his assistant 
ushers, and the Chinese work was put in charge of a committee 
of three. 

The attraction which the Broadway Tabernacle held for 
young men, and Dr. Taylor's interest in the many who thronged 
there, soon led him to organize for them a literary union 
which, besides its social service, afforded them an opportunity 
for practice in debate, essay writing, and parliamentary usage. 
In its first year Dr. Taylor gave before the society a lecture 
on " Books and Reading." This literary union was reported 
at the annual meeting of the church for half a dozen years. 
In 1878, when the last record of it is given, its officers were: 
President, Mr. Austin Abbott; Vice-President, Mr. William 
Ives Washburn; Recording Secretary, Mr. G. W. Somerin- 
dyke; Corresponding Secretary, Mr. John Allyn; Treasurer, 
Mr. Irving R. Fisher ; its directors were Dr. Taylor, Mr. John 
H. Washburn, Mr. Clark Bell, and Mr. George W. Hale. 
The pastor also organized a Bible class and teachers' prepara- 
tory meeting for Friday evenings. 

But Dr. Taylor was not especially an organizer of church 
activities. He was a preacher of the Word, mighty in the 
Scriptures, and he fed the flock. He made regular pas- 
toral calls, announcing week by week from the pulpit what 
streets he should traverse on his visiting days; and in times 
of sorrow he was tenderness itself. He had known bereave- 
ment in his own household. By a scourge of scarlet fever, 
in 1867, he had lost little children, two daughters and a son, 
and through this experience of grief he was skilled in com- 
forting those who were in any trouble. He brought them into 
the very presence of the God of all comfort, and left them 
where they should be partakers of the consolation as well as 
suffering. But over all and above all he was a preacher. His 
published writings were for the most part first delivered in 
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the pulpit and were meant not for theological experts, but 
for the people.* Not a few of them have been translated into 
Japanese, Chinese, Marathi, and other languages. As late as 
1900, " Peter the Apostle " was translated and published in 
Ahmednagar, India, where it was at once put into active use, 
and has since been followed by a translation of " Elijah, the 
Prophet." 

Doctor Taylor's appearance in the pulpit was massive, dig- 
nified, impressive. He was of medium height, but his sturdy 
frame gave the impression of great strength. He had a noble 
head, a serious face, sensitive to emotion, with grave eyes that 
could flash or burn or twinkle under bushy brows, enough 
Scotch fire to warm his tongue to eloquence, and of accent 
and homeliness of diction to make his speech picturesque. 
His voice was clear and strong, his action unstudied, energetic, 
at times vehement. In the words of Dr. R. S. Storrs : 

" Every fibre of his being, physical and moral, came in to contribute 
to the intensity and power of his utterance. ... I used often to 
think when I was in the pulpit with him or in the congregation before 
him, that even that mighty physical frame would be shaken to pieces 
with the earnestness, the momentum, the self-forgetful intensity of his 
itiought and utterance. But so it was that he put himself into other 
lives, — put his thought into other minds, his feeling and purpose into 
other spirits and swayed assemblies with his impressive and masterful 
utterance." t 

Of set purpose, Dr. Taylor changed his early argumenta- 
tive style to exposition aided by illustration, using a wealth 
of illustration not because it was his natural way of speaking, 
but because it seemed to him the most effective. He made 
preaching his business. His one aim was to save men, to 
build up saints. He was a wide reader, and his illustrations 
were gathered from a broad range of subjects. His exposi- 
tions were practical, helpful for every-day life. Biblical scenes 
and incidents became vivid in the sight of his hearers as he 
described them, and, thanks to his wonderfully retentive 
memory and to his continued and constant Biblical study, he 
had always at command the very scriptural passage that could 

* Appendix J. f William Mackergo Taylor, p. 30. 

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throw the light of revelation upon the truth he was teaching. 
In his sermon, " At the End of Twenty Years," Dr. Taylor 
defined the course of study through which he had taken his 
church. He says: 

" One of the most important duties of the pulpit is instruction, and 
on one part of each Lord's day up till this present winter, when I have 
been prevented by considerations of health, I have followed steadily out 
some course of exposition, so that in the years of my ministry here, I 
have expounded the larger portion of the historical books of the Old 
and New Testaments. Genesis we took with Abraham, Jacob and 
Joseph; the other four books of the Pentateuch we studied when our 
theme was the life of Moses; Joshua we had when we followed the 
campaigns of that great captain. Many portions of the books of Samuel 
came into the life of David; and we had large sections of the books 
of Kings, when we took up the biographies of Elijah and Elisha. We 
were delighted and animated by the business career of Nehemiah, and 
we followed with eager interest the history of Esther. We spent some 
weeks on Jonah; and a winter on the miscalled minor prophets. In 
the Gospels we took the Miracles and Parables of our Saviour. The 
book of the Acts of the Apostles came almost entirely under our study 
in the lives of Peter and of Paul ; while we have had discourses on the 
whole of the Lord's Prayer; on Peter's plan for character building; 
and other similar passages from the Epistles. This has been with me 
a matter of principle and not of convenience. If I had sought my own 
ease I would not have taken up any such courses, for the preparation 
of such ' Lectures,' as they are called in my native land, costs far more 
labor than that of other sorts of sermons. But my desire was to make 
my hearers familiar with the Word of God. I have not preached about 
it, but I have preached out of it, and I indulge the hope that they who 
followed me in these Bible studies will often remember them in after 
days, and will say regarding me : 'He gave us a new relish for the 
Bible, for he taught us to read it with intelligence and self-application.' " 

He says further: 

" On the other parts of the Lord's Day my subjects have been mis- 
cellaneous, as God might suggest to me, doctrinal or practical, but it 
has always been my habit to make them first expository, so that in these 
also, the Word was uppermost." 

Dr. Clapp, in one of his letters to the Congregationalist 

signed " Huntington," says that Dr. Taylor's power in the 

scriptures did not appear only or chiefly in his pulpit dis- 

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courses, but that those flashes of Biblical illumination so char- 
acteristic of him quite as often startled and surprised his 
hearers at the mid-week prayer-meeting. 

Another testimony as to Dr. Taylor's scriptural insight is 
given by the ex-president of Union Theological Seminary, 
Dr. Thomas S. Hastings, for a series of years his parishioner : 

" His way of handling the Word of God — reverently, scholarly, prac- 
tically, and forcefully — was peculiarly delightful to me. I can never 
forget the keen relish with which he would come to me sometimes, when 
he thought he had a fresh view of some passage of scripture, and how 
his heart warmed within him, and how his face glowed as he unfolded 
to me its meaning. 

" He was a remarkable preacher. Year in and year out as I listened 
to him I could not help but feel that this was pre-eminently true. He 
always had an aim, and he always worked his sermon toward that 
aim with a scholarly carefulness of arrangement, a force of logic and 
method, which made the sermon culminate to a height and heat which 
are rarely known in pulpit ministrations. ... In the pulpit he was 
evidently master of his subject. He held his aim constantly in view, 
and every sentence was a step toward that aim. I could not help 
writing to him once in our early association together as pastor and 
parishioner, a brief note something like this : ' Charles Lamb said once 
" I do not know why we should say grace after meals, and not after 
Milton," and I feel like saying grace after the sermon we had to-day.' 
Tender and beautiful was his response, full of the overflow of his 
great, warm, generous heart." 

A masculine, tender nature breathed through these sermons 
— manuscript sermons, which he read, it is true — but when 
with utter self-forgetfulness he poured out his soul through 
them in simple words that could be " understanded of the peo- 
ple," those words, written though they were, flashed straight 
from the heart of the preacher to the hearts of his hearers 
and fairly drove them into the kingdom. Not only were the 
preaching services crowded, but young people of the Sunday- 
school began to flock into the church. The church clerk writes, 
the year following that of Dr. Taylor's settlement : 

" It was a joyous sight to see these new disciples coming forward to 

consecrate themselves publicly to the work of the Master, coming, two 

and three at a time, from one household; parents coming because their 

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husband and wife, brother and sister, coming hand in hand. These 
scenes will long linger in our memories and mark this year as a precious 
one to us as a church." 

At the end of twenty years Dr. Taylor had admitted six 
hundred to the church, on confession of faith. 

Though the pew rentals were raised after the Tabernacle 
was altered and renovated, pews were readily let, and the 
manager of the department of strangers was sorely tried in 
his efforts to find seats for the throng from outside the so- 
ciety who pressed in, Sunday after Sunday, crowding the aisles ; 
many standing throughout the entire service after every seat 
had been filled. In 1876 the trustees passed a vote that any 
seat not occupied at the close of the first anthem at each ser- 
vice might be filled with strangers, by the ushers. Mr. Joel 
E. Fisher, who, until the close of 1886, managed this depart- 
ment, was obliged, year after year, to remind pew holders that 
their pews were reserved for them " only until the close of the 
opening chant." Since 1886 the responsibility of receiving 
and seating strangers, whether met by a " Reception Commit- 
tee " or a " Board of Ushers," has devolved upon Mr. Charles 
E. Whittemore. From 1876 there was a gradual rise in the 
number of pews let until 1888, when a decline set in, followed 
in 1898 by a rise that still continues. 

According to the rules of the society any one who has paid 
for one or more sittings, who is of legal age and has been 
an attendant at the Tabernacle for a year, is registered as a 
member and is entitled to vote at its meetings. The rule read 
" every male person " until 1871, when, on motion of Deacon 
W. H. Smith, the words were changed to " any person." 

A mortgage had been put on the Tabernacle property, in 
1872, to raise the money pledged by the society to its former 
pastor; the repairs and alterations in the church building 
largely increased the indebtedness of the society. An assess- 
ment, on account of the widening of Broadway, was contested 
by the trustees, but decided adversely in 1875, when the 
amount due the city with interest amounted to $18,300. Four 
thousand dollars was paid that year to reduce the indebted- 
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ness which was reported at the close of the year as $106,000. 
This widening of Broadway, and the building of the elevated 
road, cost the trustees many anxious hours. In 1873 a com- 
mittee was appointed to " oppose the Gilbert elevated rail- 
road bill " at Albany, but that effort, too, was unsuccessful. 
At the annual meeting in 1876, after a subscription of $50,000 
had been paid, the debt was brought down to $62,000; in 
1878, to $50,000; in 1880, to $41,000. In 1882, on Dr. Tay- 
lor's tenth anniversary, a subscription was raised of over $30,- 
000 toward building a church for the Bethany Mission, and 
the next year the debt stood at $37,000 plus an indebtedness 
of $16,000 on account of the purchase of property and the 
building of the Bethany Church, making a total of $53,000. 
In 1885 the total was $50,000; in 1886, $47,000. In 1887, 
on the fifteenth anniversary of Dr. Taylor's settlement, after 
the sermon, $13,000 was raised in about fifteen minutes, $22,- 
000 having been already pledged. That left the Thirty-fourth 
Street property clear of debt, though there was yet an in- 
debtedness of $10,000 on Bethany. 

During these years the society was in various ways promot- 
ing the comfort of the pastor — now paying his cottage rent, 
now buying for him a lot where he might bury his dead, or 
voting an extra allowance for the travelling expenses of his 
family, or his own passage to Europe, or to the Ecumenical 
Conference in London, or $1,000 for extra expenses, and 
steadily advancing his salary until by 1881 it stood at $16,- 
000. But the church debt had been from the first a burden 
on Dr. Taylor's mind. A few extracts from a letter writ- 
ten by him to an absent member of the Tabernacle Church, 
who had asked for a letter of dismissal, illustrates this, as well 
as another point upon which he had strong convictions. The 
letter is dated September 19, 1878. He says: 

" I cannot write you on the subject without saying how heartily I 
approve the course you are following. Of course I am sorry to have 
the connection subsisting between us heretofore thus formally ended, 
but I know it can never be really ended, and I am sure that it will be 
more for your good, more for your efficiency as a Christian worker 

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and a great deal more encouraging to Mr. that you are enrolled 

among his church members. I have always held that as a general rule 
it is best for people to connect themselves with the church nearest to 
their stated residence, and I have a kind of contempt for those city 
ministers who make it difficult for their members to ask a dismission 
when they go into the country, merely that they may keep the number 
on their own roll up to some great figure. So while it is never pleasant 
to part with members, I am yet glad that you have resolved to go with 

all your heart into church. I may add that I envy you the high 

privilege of belonging to a church that has no debt. Alas ! the Taber- 
nacle is not in the honored list! By dint of a great effort — judged at 
least by the exertion / had to make, but not very great after all when 
judged by results — we have after three years paid nearly $50,000; but 
there are still $50,000, and I fear it will be some considerable time before 
any more will be done in the direction of liquidation. I am very sorry ; 
because, if we had that debt paid, I would see my way at once, to get 
a permanent home for the mission on 36th St. and 9th Avenue (in 
which you and your sister were so deeply interested) ; and its support 
could then come out of the Tabernacle pew-rentals. But as it is, the 
surplus must go to pay off debt, and anything like a mission building 
of our own seems to me as yet in nubibus. I tell you all this to increase 
your gratitude at joining a church without debt, and to deepen in your 
heart the determination always to oppose the contracting of a debt by 
a Christian church. It is sure to cripple something, and generally, if 
it do not pare down the pastor's salary, it does contract the church's 
efforts for missions." 



" The church's efforts for missions ! " How often those 
words were on his lips! Next to preaching the Word to his 
own people " efforts for missions " absorbed Dr. Taylor's 
thoughts. To build up Congregationalism did not concern 
him. Though loyal by word and act to the denomination of 
which he had become a member, he never outgrew his sym- 
pathy with Presbyterianism. He fraternized with Presby- 
terians naturally, and, in New York City, found among them 
his ministerial brethren. He lectured at Yale and had warm 
friends there, but he loved Princeton, and Dr. McCosh, a fel- 
low Ayrshire man. Yet, though he cared nothing for de- 
nominational politics, he worked enthusiastically with all his 
heart for all our Congregational missionary enterprises. An 
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was more to him any Monday morning than the formal gath- 
ering of the Ministers' Club ; the American Board with all its 
interests was dear to him; he was a member of its Execu- 
tive Committee; he was president of the American Mission- 
ary Association, and, long before he became its president, he 
had taken a deep interest in its work and brought to it his 
own personal influence. It was in the traditions of his church 
to be interested in the " A. M. A. ; " Dr. Thomas Ritter, 
of the Tabernacle, had been one of its stanch upholders 
in the days when anti-slavery men looked askance at the 
American Board, and its Treasurer, Mr. Hubbard, was Dr. 
Taylor's parishioner. By the dignity of his manner, and his 
great force of character, he gave distinction to its anniversary 
meetings over which he presided from 1882 to 1892. He was 
also president of the American Congregational Union — now 
the Congregational Church Building Society — from 1885 to 
1895. The story of Dr. Taylor's work in connection with the 
last-named society reads almost like a romance. 

In February, 1882, Dr. L. H. Cobb had been called from 
service as Home Missionary Superintendent and Secretary to 
the secretaryship of the Congregational Union. Knowing as 
he did the needs of the home mission field, one of the first 
questions that occurred to him in his new work was: Why 
does not this society build parsonages as well as houses of 
worship for home missionary churches ? Indeed, this had been 
one of the avowed objects of the Congregational Union at its 
first formation in the old Tabernacle nearly thirty years be- 
fore. At Dr. Cobb's suggestion, at the meeting of the Board 
in March, 1882, a committee had been appointed to devise a 
plan for aiding parsonage building. This committee consisted 
of two Tabernacle men, Treasurer N. A. Calkins and Dr. A. 
H. Clapp, with Secretary Cobb, who came into the church 
some years later. Dr. Taylor told the rest of the story in 
his sermon preached, in the Tabernacle Church, on " The Lit- 
tle Chamber on the Wall : " 

" At the Annual Meeting of the American Congregational Union, held 
in May, 1883, I happened as one of the vice-presidents of the society, 



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to occupy the chair, in the necessary absence of the president. On that 
occasion the secretary [Dr. Cobb] read a most admirable report which 
contained the following sentences : ' Grants to aid in parsonage build- 
ing have been voted to fourteen churches. . . . Six have finished 
their houses and the grants have been paid to them amounting to $1,433. 
No ink they can find is strong enough to write their gratitude. . . . 
There will remain a balance of $21.03 with which to begin the work of 
the coming year. We desire to call special attention to the left-over 
legacy on this branch of our work. It is in the form of fifty-six urgent 
applications for aid in building greatly needed homes for ministers. To 
do anything like justice to our brethren at the front in their great need 
of homes, the Union will absolutely require and ought to have not less 
than $25,000 for this work during the year on which we have already 
entered. Will the churches take it up? . . .' There were many other 
important matters referred to in the report . . . but at its close the 
only thing I could think of was the appeal which I have read, the echoes 
of which have never ceased, since then, to reverberate in my heart." 

Dr. Cobb says that when he mentioned the " left-over 
legacy " Dr. Taylor began to listen more intently, and at the 
close of this report he rose and said that he was deeply inter- 
ested in it, but there was one thing that warmly enlisted his 
sympathy. It was what the report had said of the need of 
homes for home missionaries: 

" It distresses me to think of my brethren on the Home Missionary 
field living in board shanties, log huts and the like while doing our 

work." 

Turning to Dr. Cobb he said, "If you wish it and my 
church will let me, I will go out with you among the churches 
and raise the $25,000 of which you have spoken." 

" You may consider yourself invited," said Dr. Cobb. Then 
Dr. Taylor turned to Mr. William H. Smith, the senior deacon 
of his church, who was on the platform, and asked, " Can I 
go, Deacon?" "Yes, in vacation," answered the deacon, jok- 
ingly. " I won't go in vacation, I'll go in school time," re- 
plied the Doctor ; " I want my church to share in the work 
of raising this fund." 

It was not, however, until April, 1884, that a beginning 

was made in Providence and Pawtucket, R. I., when more 

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than $1,000 was raised. His next attempt was made with 
Dr. Cobb, later in the year. He said of this trip, in the ser- 
mon quoted above: 

" On Tuesday last, in Boston, after a meeting on Monday evening, we 
got in the course of four hours the sum of $2,700. No one on whom 
I called refused. One gentleman gave me $500. Some half dozen gave 
me $250 each, and others smaller sums. As I was returning to New 
York on the cars the same afternoon I met a gentleman belonging to 
the Episcopal Church . . . and in the course of conversation with 
him I happened to tell him as a matter of interest what I had been doing 
in Boston. He said little for a time, but when we went into the dining 
car for some refreshments he put thirty dollars in gold into my hand, 
saying : ' I know all about the hardships of these missionaries and would 
like to give you something myself.' Then after we got through dinner, 
he said, ' I find I have more money in my pocket than I thought I had. 
I would like to make that thirty into fifty dollars,' which he did. Dr. 
Cobb was in another car, and I hastened to tell him of the unexpected 
gift [happy as a boy, Dr. Cobb says]. As I was speaking to him, a 
gentleman in the seat before that in which he was sitting, overhearing 
what I was telling him, turned, and said : ' I read about that, this morn- 
ing, in the Boston paper, and I want to give you something too.' So 
he handed me five dollars. These unlooked-for incidents made me feel 
that God is, indeed, with me in this enterprise." 

The Tabernacle Church, too, felt that God was with him 
and did not withhold their gifts. Besides supplying the pul- 
pit during the three Sabbaths of their pastor's absence they 
contributed $5,000 to the fund, and Dr. Taylor, after a Western 
trip with the secretary, after making appeals in several Brook- 
lyn churches, writing numerous letters early in 1885, and call- 
ng in person on many individuals, had the great joy of see- 
ng the fund, during that year, amount to $27,000. The April 
ssue of the Church Building Quarterly, 1895, was a " Par- 
sonage Number," in commemoration of Dr. Taylor and his 
noble work for home missionaries. In it, among many pictures 
of parsonages built by help of this fund, is a view of the " Tay- 
lor Parsonage," named in his honor, in Great Bend, Kansas. 
The missionaries' letters written from their new parsonages 
overflow Math gratitude. One of them wisely says : " These 
home missionary parsonages are Dr. Taylor's monuments." 
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The Student Volunteer Movement owes its existence, indi- 
rectly, to Dr. Taylor. Mr. L. D. Wishard, who holds Dr. 
Taylor as " one of the greatest preachers and foreign mission- 
ary pastors this country ever had," writes as follows : 

" In January, 1876, Dr. Taylor was suddenly called to Princeton to 
preach to the students on the Day of Prayer for Colleges. He delivered 
on that occasion one of the greatest sermons I ever heard from him 
on the text ' Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.' We who 
were identified with that greatest revival in Princeton's history have 
always felt that Dr. Taylor had an important part through that sermon 
in bringing about that great spiritual uprising. On the evening of that 
day, after hearing a second sermon from him in the village church, a 
large number of students made a public announcement of their accept- 
ance of Christ. Their action was not exclusively the result of Dr. Tay- 
lor's sermon. Nearly a hundred Christian men had been spending the 
entire day in personal appeals to the students to become Christians. 
The sermon, however, did its part, and a very important part it was. 

"The uplift which the revival gave to the spiritual life of the insti- 
tution paved the way in a large measure for the movement which 
Princeton students made within a year to enlist the students of all of 
our leading colleges and universities in an intercollegiate Christian 
union. This union was known as the Intercollegiate Young Men's 
Christian Association. Two years after the Intercollegiate Association 
was formed a foreign missionary department was created in the Asso- 
ciation. This foreign missionary department is now known as the 
Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions." 

Mr. Wishard was connected with the movement as its 
originator and organizing secretary from 1877 until 1888. In 
January, 1880, Mr. Wishard submitted a statement concern- 
ing the aim and methods of the movement to Dr. Taylor, who 
gave his hearty endorsement of it. At that time Mr. Wishard 
was entertaining a call to an important position on the for- 
eign mission field, but his departure would leave the Inter- 
collegiate Movement without a leader. Again he sought Dr. 
Taylor's counsel, who gave him, says Mr. Wishard, advice in 
substance as follows: 

" You fully realize how natural it would be for me with my deep 
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field. I think I see, however, a service before you in this country as 
leader of the missionary movement among students which is far more 
significant than any service you can render single handed upon the 
mission field. You have evidently been providentially called to the 
direction of this movement at home, and my judgment is that you 
should not turn aside from such an opening unless God compels you 
to do so." 

He said further: 

" I have been guided about a number of matters in my life by a 
principle which I would commend to you. I have never felt at liberty 
to leave an existing work until I not only saw an open door before me 
but also a closed door behind me. I have recently had an urgent call 
to an important and attractive field in a neighboring city. The Taber- 
nacle, however, has very strong claims on me. They have assumed 
obligations in connection with my pastorate which I cannot ignore. 
The door before me is undoubtedly open, but the door behind me is 
not closed." 

As a result of this counsel Mr. Wishard remained to carry 
on the Volunteer Movement. Until now more than 1,600 
of its men have gone to foreign mission fields from this 
country, while five hundred more have gone from British 
universities. 

From October, 1876, to June, 1880, Dr. Taylor was editor- 
in-chief of The Christian at Work — now Christian Work. 
Major Marshall H. Bright, editor of the Christian Work, 
writes of Dr. Taylor's connection with that journal as fol- 
lows : 

" It was in October, 1876, that the precipitate retirement of the then 
editor of the Christian Work, which occurred at the very instant when 
the paper was going to press, required an immediate selection of an 
editor-in-chief who should be a representative man and preferably a 
preacher and a strong one. It was also very desirable that the an- 
nouncement of his coming should be made without the delay of an 
issue. My suggestion at the time of the Rev. Dr. Taylor as the future 
editor was no sooner made than accepted, and I immediately called 
upon the doctor at his residence. The proposition was laid before him 
and it is a tribute to his decision of character that it only required the 
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pause of a few minutes, when he replied, ' Yes — I will take the editor- 
ship you offer; but each party must be at liberty to cancel the engage- 
ment at any time.' Dr. Taylor, as I have reason to believe, without the 
knowledge of any one outside of his immediate family, devoted his entire 
salary as editor to beneficence, appropriating no part to himself. 

" Dr. Taylor's editorial work has long been recognized and will not 
be forgotten. But I may say this of it — it was emphatically up to date. 
No part of an old sermon, I believe, was ever made available for an 
editorial, although it might admirably have served the purpose. But 
Dr. Taylor would have none of it. He was a careful and close reader 
of the best current literature in philosophy and theology, and especially 
of the foreign reviews; and the fruits of his reading appeared in the 
leading editorial article, which generally comprised from eight hundred 
to a thousand words. Dr. Taylor did not believe in very short editorials, 
and displayed the same earnestness, intensity and clearness of thought, 
and accuracy of statement in journalistic work that characterized his 
sermons. . . . Speaking of his editorial writing he once said to me, 
' It seems easy; not only must but one subject be treated, but generally 
but one phase of a subject, and yet sometimes it comes more difficult 
for me to write an editorial than a sermon.' 

" Dr. Taylor was a very conservative man in his views on the ques- 
tion of Evolution. He then regarded the doctrine as amenable to the 
Scotch verdict ' not proven ' ; and while he would not distinctly enter 
the lists against it, he was fond of quoting some jest or witticism put 
forth by an opponent of the doctrine. Conservative in the field of 
science his writings showed him a moderate conservative in the depart- 
ment of theology. Here perhaps he was more liberal in thought than 
in his expression of it. 

" Dr. Taylor was not only of Scottish birth but a devoted Scot in 
feeling. He quite resented being spoken of as ' an Englishman.' Once 
when a religious paper alluded to him as ' Dr. Taylor, late of Liverpool,' 
he exclaimed ' Why do they do that ? I am a Scotchman and not an 
Englishman. But they cannot expatriate me if they try.' For a long 
time, it may be added, Dr. Taylor refused to become naturalized, and 
this not so much because of his fondness for his native land, but chiefly 
because of the dominance of misrule in this city and elsewhere. 

" Dr. Taylor's sense of justice was not the least attractive element 
of his character. On one occasion an editorial appeared in Christian 
Work reflecting, and as it afterward appeared unjustly, upon the man- 
agement of an important department of the work of the Presbyterian 
church. Expostulations and protests came in by nearly every mail. 
When I next saw him Dr. Taylor showed me some of the letters and 
inquired who the writer of the article was. Upon being informed, he 
said he would write him, which he did, asking for his authority. The 
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reply giving the authority was regarded by him, and I believe rightly, 
as inadequate. Thereupon he wrote a short editorial article for the 
next issue recalling ' the censure so mistakenly and unjustly visited 
upon the Presbyterian Church by the writer of the editorial in ques- 
tion.' I may add that as the writer was a friend of both Dr. Taylor 
and myself, I asked him if he would not somewhat modify the expres- 
sion of his condemnation, but this he refused to do. He said an injustice 
had been perpetrated so distinctly that it must as distinctly be recalled. 
" Only once was there the semblance of attrition between the doctor 
and myself. On this occasion there was pretty sharp discussion over 
the policy of the paper upon some matter — I forget now just what it 
was. I had expressed myself quite forcibly — more so probably than I 
had just cause for doing — when Dr. Taylor proceeded to answer me 
in his most emphatic manner : ' Let me tell you — let me tell you ' — and 
then coming to an abrupt pause and evidently with effort putting him- 
self under control, his whole tone and bearing changing, he said, plac- 
ing his hand on my shoulder, ' If we discuss any further one or both 
of us will say something we shall regret. Come down and lunch with 
me.' That settled it: it was the end of all controversy: it was a fine 
example of self-control and served — as how could it fail? — to increase 
my admiration for the man." 



Major Bright gives other interesting incidents bearing upon 
Dr. Taylor's connection with the Christian Work and sums 
up his impression of him as one always courteous, just, dis- 
criminating, who by the charm of his personal intercourse, 
the freedom with which at times he exhibited his inner feel- 
ing, and by his consideration for others, showed in his lov- 
able and strong nature " the blending of those rare qualities 
which made him the great preacher, the able editor, the firm 
friend, and the Christian gentleman that he was." 

At different times Dr. Taylor filled various other positions 
of honor and responsibility in New York City. He was presi- 
dent of the Gospel Mission to the Tombs ; chaplain to the St. 
Andrew's Society; member of the Council of the University 
of the City of New York; manager of the Presbyterian Hos- 
pital; manager of the American Tract Society; manager of 
the American Bible Society; trustee of Mount Holyoke Semi- 
nary (now college) ; director of the New York City Mission 
and Tract Society, and member of the Committee of the Na- 
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tional Council for Ministerial Relief. In addition to what 
came upon him through his connection with these many 
benevolences and because of his position as bishop of the 
one Metropolitan church of its order in the United States, Dr. 
Taylor was in frequent, almost incessant demand for public 
services, for installation and dedication sermons, for memorial 
addresses, and for lectures. It has been said that the high 
water mark of his attainments as a public speaker was reached 
at three times, and in three different styles of oratory: in his 
memorized sermon on the death of the Prince Consort ; in his 
extempore address at the Robert Raikes centenary in Exeter 
Hall, London, in 1880, and in the great Luther celebration in 
New York, when his address was read. Some of that vast 
audience, who looked from the speaker to the bust of Luther 
that was placed near him, found it so remarkably like Dr. 
Taylor that they questioned whether it were intended to rep- 
resent the preacher or the reformer. In 1876 and 1887 he 
delivered the Lyman Beecher course of lectures at Yale, after- 
ward published in book form as " The Ministry of the Word " 
(1876); and "The Scottish Pulpit from the Reformation to 
the Present Day" (1887). "The Ministry of the Word," 
says the Kilmarnock Standard, in its review of Dr. Taylor's 
life, was presented by a liberal member of the denomination 
(United Presbyterian) to all the students attending Divinity 
Hall at the time of publication and to the young ministers 
of the United Presbyterian Church. He also delivered in 
Princeton, in 1880, lectures on " The Gospel Miracles in their 
Relation to Christ," published the same year; and from that 
university he received the degree of LL.D., three years later. 
Some of these courses of lectures Dr. Taylor also gave at 
Union and at Oberlin. 

Much has been said in these pages of Dr. Taylor as a 
preacher. It was from the pulpit that he spoke to the world at 
large, but to the smaller circle of his acquaintances and friends 
it was not Dr. Taylor the preacher, but Dr. Taylor the man, 
whom they loved and revered. He was a man greatly beloved. 
The several clerks of the church committee exhausted all their 
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power of language in attempting to express what he was to the 
flock he tended : 

" The world knows something of the eloquence with which Dr. Tay- 
lor, in his pulpit ministrations, enforces and illustrates the precepts 
of religion ; . . . but to us, the people with whom he has lived and 
to whose spiritual needs he has ministered, the greatness for which the 
world admires him is almost lost sight of in our regard for him as a 
pastor and our love for him as a friend. He has shared our joys, he 
has been with us in our times of sorrow and bereavement, and day by 
day he has moved to and fro among us like the weaver's shuttle, carry- 
ing with him the golden cord of Christian sympathy that has woven us 
together in one family of Christian believers." * 

The subscription taken up for a church building for the 
Bethany Mission, on Dr. Taylor's tenth anniversary, was also 
" a thank offering for that firmly rooted and uninterrupted 
mutual confidence and esteem which has prevailed during 
these ten years between pastor and people." \ On the follow- 
ing evening a reception was given to the pastor, and the 
society and neighboring clergymen gathered to celebrate the 
occasion still further. The clearing of the debt on the church 
building was accomplished on Sunday, March 13, 1887, the 
fifteenth anniversary, " as a loving testimonial of the estima- 
tion in which he is held in the hearts and homes of his people." 
At the sixtieth anniversary of the church, Dr. William H. 
Thomson, when talking of " the old friends," said that Dr. 
Taylor was a friend of whom he could not trust himself to 
speak at all adequately: 

" Dr. Taylor never could be a half-way friend. It was not in him 
to hide anything. He could not be artificial if he tried. His whole 
soul went out to any one whom he liked with a genial abandon which 
made him one of the most lovable men that I have ever met. There 
was nothing he enjoyed so much as a good joke, and as there is no 
such personal revealer and sometimes betrayer as a laugh, so the genuine, 
genial soul of that man often comes back to me as the sound of his 
voice still echoes in the memory of some pleasantry of his." 

* Annual Report of the Broadway Tabernacle for 1876. 
t Year Book, 1882. 

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An incident told by Dr. Ward of the Independent throws a 
flash of light on Dr. Taylor's sweetness and simplicity of spirit. 
At an association meeting Dr. Ward defended a certain posi- 
tion. This Dr. Taylor opposed, making a hasty and some- 
what heated rejoinder. Dr. Ward said nothing further. He 
respected Dr. Taylor too much to wish to antagonize him. 
Almost immediately after this little difference Dr. Taylor was 
called upon to lead in prayer. As soon as he ceased praying 
Dr. Taylor started for Dr. Ward who was leaving the room. 
Hastening after him he called out, heedless of bystanders, 
" Dr. Ward, I want you to forgive me." Embarrassed by Dr. 
Taylor's sweet humility, Dr. Ward tried to silence htm, but 
he seized his hand and repeated yet more emphatically : " Say 
you forgive me ! " Such magnanimity would have disarmed 
even a foe. 

In 1888 Dr. Taylor left New York for his annual trip 
abroad, somewhat earlier than usual, that he might attend the 
Ecumenical Conference of Foreign Missions, in. London, to 
v/hich he was accredited a delegate-at-large. After returning, 
for one Sunday he was prevented by illness from preaching 
to his people; the first time in more than thirty years that 
he had been absent from his pulpit on account of ill-health. 

The following year the American Board held, in October, 
its annual meeting, a notable one, in the Tabernacle. 

Fifty years after the founding of the church, in 1890, its 
clerk reported 1,220 members, the largest number the church 
had ever enrolled. 

After his return from the annual meeting of the American 
Missionary Association, in 1891, Dr. Taylor was laid aside 
from ministerial duty for six weeks. During this time he was 
unable to study ; but he soon resumed work, and March 13th, 
of the following year, he preached the twentieth anniversary 
sermon from which quotations have already been made. In 
this address he called by name Henry C. Hall, William Allen, 
Charles Abernethy, Thomas Berry, William G. Lambert, 
Thomas Ritter, Nathaniel Fisher, the brothers Rarmey, and 
Thomas W. Whittemore, " whose friendly co-operation light- 
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ened the burdens and sweetened the cares of my pastorate." 
He stated that during his pastorate six hundred had been ad- 
mitted to the church on confession, nine hundred and eighty- 
two by letter, nearly sixteen hundred in all. He called their 
attention to the confession of faith, unaltered, up to the pres- 
ent, from Dr. Thompson's day. The original " statement " 
as to the objects of a Christian church had entirely omit- 
ted what Dr. Taylor considered, perhaps, the most impor- 
tant object of the church — " the advancement of the Re- 
deemer's Kingdom." He showed that the contributions of 
the church for missionary enterprises at home and abroad had 
advanced from $11,558, in 1872, to $41,881, in 1891 ; that is, 
that the church's payment for "the advancement of the Re- 
deemer's Kingdom," outside its own bounds, had nearly quad- 
rupled in twenty years. He summed up, in round numbers, 
that the church had raised three-quarters of a million for the 
payment of debt, and the support of their own home work 
in twenty years; and half a million for missionary purposes. 
The tide of liberality had risen gradually but steadily, and the 
pastor's heart glowed with gratitude. 

About two weeks later, March 30th, Dr. Taylor was stricken 
with paralysis. At first he gained so notably that he hoped 
to be able to resume his work, but as the six months' leave 
of absence that had been given him drew to a close he real- 
ized how long it must be under the most favorable circum- 
stances before he could again preach, and he decided to lay 
down his charge. His resignation was sent October 27, 1892,* 
and was presented at a special meeting of the church Novem- 
ber 2d. There was no other course open for the church but 
to accept it. f They voted, however, to continue his salary un- 
til May 1, 1893, and to appoint him pastor emeritus for life, 
with no responsibility or function other than that which his 
membership in the church involved, with an annual stipend 
of $5,000. These resolutions, with a minute expressing the 
love, gratitude, and sympathy of his people, were forwarded 
to him immediately. Dr. Taylor's touching letter in response 

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to this action was read at the service on Sunday, Christmas 
morning, and cannot be omitted from this chapter: 

" Lakewood, N. J., 22d December, 1892. 
" William Ives Washburn, Esq., 

" My dear Sir : — I ought, long ago, to have acknowledged the receipt 
of the beautifully illuminated copy of the Resolutions adopted by the 
Church in the matter of my letter of resignation, but whenever I have 
tried to concentrate my thoughts on that subject, the tumult of emotion 
within me has become so great as to unfit me for any kind of mental 
exertion. Nor will you be surprised at this when you remember that 
I had given up what I may call the ruling passion of my life, and after 
thirty-nine years of active service in the pulpit had at the bidding of 
my Master sunk into silence. It needed some time for me to find out 
that He had not dismissed me in disgrace, but that as a special favor 
he had given me a holiday at the week-end preparatory to my entering 
upon the fuller rest of the eternal Sabbath. Accordingly I delayed 
communicating with you until in the spiritual calmness of this restored 
faith I could write with an unruffled heart. 

" Tell the members of the Church that I thank them unfeignedly for 
the affection and appreciation so eloquently and so touchingly expressed 
in their resolutions. It is good to receive such kind words at any time, 
but when one has been laid aside from active work they are to him as 
' Cold water to a thirsty soul,' nay, almost as the prelude and prophecy 
of the ' Well done ! ' of the Lord Himself. As such I value them be- 
yond all price; but where to them is added the great honor of being 
continued in the relation of Pastor Emeritus to those of whom I was 
so long the shepherd ; and the generous and thoughtful provision which 
the Society has made for my temporal comfort, my admiration of my 
people is swallowed up in gratitude for their kindness. I accept their 
generosity as heartily as they have given it, and pray that ' a full reward 
may be given them of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings they 
have come to trust.' 

" Wishing for them that God of his grace may soon send them a 
pastor according to his own heart, and with all kindest regards for 
yourself, I remain, 

" Yours faithfully, 

" Wm. M. Taylor." 

Just at the time Dr. Taylor was stricken, an effort was 
making to draw him back to Scotland, to succeed Dr. John 
Cairns, as principal of the Divinity Hall, in Edinburgh, in 
which he had graduated forty years before. The offer was a 
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of pecuniary sacrifice, it would have been hard to refuse. He 
wrote to Professor Calderwood: 

" But just at the moment when your letter came I was, in the good 
Providence of God, in circumstances which took the whole matter out 
of my hands." 

Still, "by the good Providence of God" he rallied suffi- 
ciently to do some more work during the three years he re- 
mained with his household and friends- There were frequent 
and trying relapses, but he wrote, or dictated, many letters, 
treasured by his friends. He put through the press " The Boy 
Jesus and other Sermons," followed by " An Address to 
Young Men." This labor was a great comfort to him, but 
gradually he was forced to relinquish all service save that 
most difficult of all, to " stand and wait." When he at last 
realized that this was the will of God concerning him the 
sweetness of his resignation was a lesson in Christianity to all 
who visited him. Said Dr. Storrs: 

" Though I thought I knew him to the centre I did not understand 
that power of sovereign, conquering, God-given patience which he ex- 
hibited in the closing years of his life. ... I wonder how many of 
us can say : ' That was a strain which I could bear ! ' I say for myself 
frankly : ' I could not then and there have borne it' " 

And Dr. William H. Thomson pays him this loving tribute : 

" It was my sad duty to be with him through many months of the 
heaviest trial of spirit which could have been sent to one of his char- 
acter and temperament. To a man of his aspirations, as well as quali- 
fications, there could be no greater calamity or keener disappointment 
than to be stricken down in the midst of his days of power and of action 
and left for many a weary month to realize the nature of the blow 
more and more. Then it was that the Lord appeared behind him 
though he knew it not. Unconsciously Dr. Taylor showed the very 
picture of Christ himself in his sweet trusting resignation to God's 
will; and to some, at least, proved the reality of the Christian life as 
a gift from above more than did his greatest sermons." 

And he kept his power of loving and awakening love unto 

the end — that power which his successor, Dr. Stimson, in his 

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beautiful memorial sermon, calls "the best gift that God has 
sent us." In almost his last return of consciousness he smiled 
and said, " Those dear people ; how good they have been to 
me ! " " Then," said the preacher : 

" he stroked my face with his hand as though he were stroking yours 
each in turn. ' How good they have been to me ! ' His thoughts were 
taking in the whole congregation — the strong men, and the little chil- 
dren whose faces he loved and whose names he had given in baptism, 
all were present to his mind and held their place in the wealth of that 
love which remained undisturbed to the last." 

He passed away peacefully at midnight, February 8, 1895. 



CHAPTER VIII. 
THE FOURTH AND FIFTH PASTORATES. 

On the acceptance of Dr. Taylor's resignation a special com- 
mittee was appointed by the church and society, to nominate 
his successor. This committee consisted of Messrs. Cornelius 
N. Bliss, Caleb B. Knevals, Henry C. Houghton, J. Howard 
Sweetser, Bradford K. Wiley, Irving R. Fisher, and William 
Ives Washburn. The work of the church went on quietly but 
uninterruptedly. A student in the senior class of Union Theo- 
logical Seminary, Mr. J. Winthrop Platner, was engaged to 
aid the church committee in pastoral work, and his assistance 
was valuable in the weekly prayer and conference meeting, 
the Sunday-school, and the Young Men's Association. The 
pulpit was supplied by the Rev. Marvin R. Vincent, D.D., 
and other well-known clergymen. 

On January i, 1893, the committee presented, at the annual 
meeting of the church, the name of the Rev. Henry Albert 
Stimson, D.D., of St. Louis, Mo., and the church and society 
thereupon extended to him a unanimous call to the pastorate. 
Dr. Stimson had interviews with the committee in St. Louis, 
and before deciding to accept the call he came to New York 
and occupied the pulpit on two Sabbaths. 

Dr. Stimson was born September 28, 1842. His early home 
was in New York City, and before going to college he was 
for some years in business with Morton, Grinnell & Co., of 
New York. He entered Yale University as Sophomore, grad- 
uating in 1865. He studied for one year in Union Theo- 
logical Seminary, 1866-67, an & graduated from the Andover 
Theological Seminary in 1869 after a year and a half of 
study abroad. He was called, the same year, to the Plymouth 
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Church of Minneapolis, Minn., where he served as acting pas- 
tor for a year. In 1870 he was ordained as pastor, and re- 
mained in charge of that church until 1880. He married, 
April 19, 1877, Alice, daughter of President Samuel C. Bart- 
lett, D.D., of Dartmouth College. He has received from Yale 
the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Divinity; the 
latter degree also from Ripon College. 

During the eleven years of his service with Plymouth 
Church, Dr. Stimson became an efficient member of the State 
Board of Home Missions, an active member of the Board of 
Trustees of Carleton College, and he was energetic in pro- 
moting every form of benevolence and church* work in the 
city, and prominent, as a citizen, in supporting whatever the 
interests of the community or the State demanded. All sorts 
of affairs, from the color of a new bridge to the founding of 
a library, were referred to him. At one time, when the city 
was under the shadow of unrestrained immorality, Dr. Stim- 
son proposed a general meeting to arouse the public conscience. 
He was met with the assertion, " You cannot get a baker's 
dozen to attend such a meeting." 

" We will not only fill the Academy of Music," was his re- 
ply, " but we will have an overflow meeting." Dr. Stimson 
knew no discouragement. He enlisted the superintendent of 
public schools, the leading Catholic priest, the Protestant 
Episcopal rector, engaged the Academy of Music, and, after 
due preparation, announced the meeting. Not only was the 
great building filled and the overflow meeting held, but another 
large meeting followed, and good citizenship took a long step 
forward. His indomitable energy commanded success. 

From his connection with the State Board of Home Mis- 
sions, Dr. Stimson was in close touch with the weaker Con- 
gregational churches of the Northwest. He stimulated and 
encouraged their pastors to new efforts in strengthening and 
establishing their struggling enterprises. Thus he began in 
Plymouth Church the work of building around him new Con- 
gregational churches, a work which he has continued to the 
present. 

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The Fourth and Fifth Pastorates 

In 1880 Dr. Stimson became pastor of the Union Church 
in Worcester, Mass., where he labored for six years. Here 
he introduced new and interesting methods, and soon, instead 
of a scattered audience on Sunday evenings, the house was 
filled, and ten new Congregational churches were organized or 
started through the city missionary society which he was in- 
strumental in forming. The following year he was made re- 
cording secretary of the American Board, which position he 
has occupied to the present time. 

In 1886 Dr. Stimson returned to the West, the Pilgrim 
Church of St. Louis having invited him to its pastorate. " You 
are not going to St. Louis but to the Southwest," was a 
brother minister's answer when asked for advice as to this 
call. Nor was he mistaken. There Dr. Stimson took up work 
for Drury College, he started the city missionary society, 
and through his encouragement and the pecuniary aid his 
church could give, many young churches were enabled to es- 
tablish themselves firmly. There lacks but one — or possibly 
two may be wanting — to make the number of churches he has 
thus built and founded a full quarter of a hundred. 

Dr. Stimson was released by council from his pastorate in 
St. Louis, March 20, 1893, and on that day he accepted the 
Broadway Tabernacle's invitation. He took up the work of 
the church the very day he reached New York, by conducting 
the regular weekly prayer-meeting on the evening of April 5, 
1893. His pulpit ministrations began the following Sunday. 

All the Congregational churches of New York and Brook- 
lyn, with a few others, were invited to take part in the coun- 
cil called to ratify the action of the church as to the retire- 
ment of Dr. Taylor, the call to Dr. Stimson, and to assist in 
the installation services. The council met Tuesday, October 
31st. It adopted a minute expressing the regret of the 
churches represented, over Dr. Taylor's necessary resignation ; 
their gratitude for the work he had done, and their love for 
him. This short extract shows its tenor: 

" His character has been to us all, as well as to the members of this 
congregation, a constant and vast power for good. His tender affec- 

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tionateness has won our hearts; while the learning and intellectual 
power devoted by him to the service of the Lord have charmed and 
commanded us." 

The council approved and ratified the action of the church 
in retaining Dr. Taylor as pastor emeritus, and in calling to 
be his successor one " approved an able and faithful minister 
of Christ by years of labor and experience and of distinguished 
success in the service of the Gospel." At the installation ser- 
vice the prayer of invocation was offered by Rev. A. H. Brad- 
ford, D.D., of Montclair; the sermon preached by Dr. Stim- 
son's father-in-law, Dr. Bartlett; the prayer of installation by 
Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D. ; the charge to the pastor by 
Rev. A. J. Lyman, D.D. ; the charge to the people by Dr. 
Storrs, all of Brooklyn; and the right hand of fellowship by 
Rev. S. H. Virgin, D.D., of the Pilgrim Church, New York. 

Dr. Stimson was settled with a salary of $12,000, his re- 
moval expenses were paid, and his house furnished; the so- 
ciety also assumed $1,000 on his house rent. 

The Tabernacle Church was now facing a number of serious 
problems. The question was constantly coming up whether 
it would be wiser for the church to remove, as it had done 
in 1859, t0 a sl te farther up town. Should it sell the prop- 
erty and rebuild elsewhere? The church expenses had been 
met, except when some special effort was put forth to clear 
off arrears, by pew-rentals; but pew-rentals had been falling 
off quite steadily since they reached that high-water mark of 
nearly $38,000 in 1881. The decrease had been gradual, but 
by 1890 the pew-rentals were $3,700 less, and by 1893 they 
were more than $13,000 less, and a debt had begun to accumu- 
late. The church membership also was decreasing. In 1880 
the net gain in membership had been thirty-four, but in the 
ten years beginning with that date the net gain had averaged 
but twenty-two. In 1889 it was but eight; in 1890 but seven; 
and from that time until 1898 the yearly loss exceeded the 
gain. A large proportion of the removals were to other 
churches in the city, most of them farther up town. 

If the Tabernacle Church did not sell its property, but re- 
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mained in its present position, it would evidently be neces- 
sary before long for it to become less of a family church and 
to bring within its walls a more miscellaneous congregation, 
approximating more nearly to what it had been in the early 
years of its history. Neither church nor society was ready 
to decide the question, and it was of necessity left to be de- 
cided by time. 

The new pastor was a sound preacher, especially strong 
when treating of missionary themes, and an able platform 
speaker. He was a man conservative in religious opinion but 
progressive in church methods. Eighteen years in the West 
had but emphasized his native characteristics of energy and 
executive ability. He had commanding bodily presence, a fine 
full voice, the manner and qualities of a leader, and he began 
work at once. The church roll had not been purged of ab- 
sentees for a long time, and for a year or two the committee 
labored assiduously to learn the actual strength of the church. 
In 1894 one hundred and ninety-six were reported on the ab- 
sentee list, and fellowship was withdrawn from four, making 
a reduction in the nominal membership of two hundred. This 
was a thankless but most necessary task. 

In 1893 the Sunday-school work of the church was divided, 
a morning school being established, which met for an hour's 
session at 9.45 and has been continued to the present time. 
A society of Christian Endeavor was organized, October 1st, 
with fifteen members, and numbered forty before the year was 
out. A junior society was undertaken on November 8th, and 
in May the observance of Children's Day was introduced with 
a presentation of infants for baptism, and a gift of Bibles to 
such children of the church as had reached the age of seven 
years. 

Changes in the order of admission to the church were 
adopted in 1893 at the annual meeting, and a new hymn book 
was introduced when the church came together after the sum- 
mer vacation. 

For many years there had been a Home Missionary Society 

sustained by women of the church ; there were also a Young 

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Women's Foreign Missionary Society, and other forms of 
associated work in connection with Bethany Church. All 
these were working independently of each other and inde- 
pendently of the Woman's Board of Missions and the Wom- 
an's Home Missionary Union. Under Dr. Stimson's guidance 
these missionary societies were united in one organization, the 
Society for Woman's Work, and became allied to the societies 
of the State. 

In 1893 Dr. Stimson was made a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Congregational Home Missionary So- 
ciety on which he served until 1896, in which year he was 
made president of the Congregational Church Building Society. 
He was again elected by the latter the following year, but de- 
clined to serve. 

Dr. Taylor, the beloved pastor emeritus of the church, died 
on Friday, February 8, 1895. On Sunday morning, February 
10th, the pastor preached the memorial sermon. The funeral 
service was held in the church on the following Tuesday. 
The sermon was preached by Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn, and 
Professor Marvin R. Vincent, D.D., Dr. John Hall, and Dr. 
A. H. Clapp took part in the services. In addition to the 
anthem and hymn sung by the choir, three hymns were sung 
selected by Dr. Taylor several years before in anticipation of 
his death, as expressing his personal faith. They were : " How 
sad our state by nature is," " O could I speak the matchless 
worth," and " The sands of time are sinking." The pall- 
bearers were the deacons and trustees of the church. 

A Memorial Service was held in the church on the follow- 
ing Sunday evening. After a few introductory words by Dr. 
Stimson, tributes of affectionate appreciation were offered by 
the Rev. Dr. John Hall, President Thomas S. Hastings, D.D., 
Rabbi Gustave Gottheil, D.D., the Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, and 
the Rev. Dr. Henry M. Sanders. These addresses by clergy- 
men of various faiths, with the memorial and funeral sermons, 
were published under the title " William Mackergo Taylor," 
by the committee of the church. 

In May, 1895, in response to a memorial from Bethany 
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Church, the following resolutions were adopted at a meeting 
of the Broadway Tabernacle Church: 

"Resolved, That we recognize the good beginning which Bethany 
Church has made under the organization of 1877 toward the object of 
that organization, viz. : a condition of progressive self-reliance with a 
view to ultimate independence. 

" Resolved, That the Board of Missions of the Broadway Tabernacle 
be reorganized by the establishment of a board of five members ; with 
the same powers and duties as the Board of Missions now existing; 
and that one member of such board be elected by Bethany Church; 
and whenever two-fifths of the current expenses of any year shall be 
borne by Bethany Church and Sunday-school and so certified to us by 
the Bethany Board, two members of the board shall be chosen by 
Bethany Church for the ensuing year. Meanwhile the remaining mem- 
bers shall be elected by the Broadway Tabernacle. 

" Resolved, That the designation ' Mission ' be henceforth discon- 
tinued, and to that end the board be designated simply Bethany Board. 

"Resolved, That as soon as in the judgment of Bethany Board the 
church and Sunday-school are able to raise three-fifths of their current 
expenses the board report the fact to the Tabernacle Church." 

Dr. Stimson interested himself in the various forms of work 
in and for Bethany Church, and it was his initiative that in- 
stituted the kindergarten department. 

Before the close of 1895 considerable friction was manifest 
in the management of the affairs of the church and society. 
When good men disagree much may be attributed to tem- 
peramental differences, but the date is too recent to write 
judicially of causes over which the church was divided. More 
remoteness is necessary for a true perspective. On Wednes- 
day, April 8, 1896, at a meeting of the church called for the pur- 
pose, Dr. Stimson offered his resignation, which, after discus- 
sion, was accepted. 

An Ecclesiastical Council, consisting of the same churches 
that had been present at the installation, was convened on 
April 28th. In its " Result " the Council recognized with re- 
gret and declared the termination of the pastorate ; it referred 
to Dr. Stimson's prosperous work in St. Louis; his hesitancy 
in responding to the call of the Tabernacle Church; to what 
he had accomplished in New York, and the confidence in him 
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of other pastors in the neighborhood, and it gave him warm 
commendation as an able and honored pastor and preacher, 
" devoted to his spiritual work and full of rich enthusiasm for 
it," "greatly endeared to the ministers and churches of the 
Council." 

The society voted that a sum equal to a year's salary from 
the date of his retirement should be paid him at once, and 
assumed the lease of his dwelling house, relieving him from 
all further responsibility on that account. 

During the year sixty-six members of the Tabernacle 
Church received letters of dismissal and recommendation to 
the Manhattan Church, organized October 23, 1896, with Dr. 
Stimson as pastor. This colony, strengthened by the acces- 
sion of fourteen more at later dates, constituted a strong 
nucleus for the new church which, after worshipping for 
nearly five years in Leslie Hall on Eighty-third Street and 
Boulevard, is now erecting its fine house of worship at the 
corner of Broadway and Seventy-sixth Street. 

Church services during the summer of 1896 were held 
in the Tabernacle chapel while repairs and painting were 
going on in the church auditorium. A committee to nomi- 
nate a pastor was appointed consisting of Dr. William H. 
Thomson, Messrs. Joel E. Fisher, Charles L. Mead, Hamilton 
S. Gordon, Isaac D. Blodgett, Edward J. Brown, and Dr. Wil- 
liam L. Stowell. During the following year Messrs. Blodgett 
and Brown resigned from this committee, and power was given 
it by the church to fill these vacancies. The committee, as it 
finally stood, consisted of Messrs. William H. Thomson, 
Charles L. Mead, H. S. Gordon, William L. Stowell, George 
L. Leonard, James E. Corsa, and Charles E. Mitchell. 

Rev. Andrew V. V. Raymond, D.D., President of Union 
College, was engaged as regular supply during the winter of 
1896. His services were so highly valued that he was engaged 
to supply the Tabernacle pulpit during the following year, so 
far as his duties would allow. 

Rev. Frederick B. Richards had been for two years pastor 

of Bethany Church. Being known to the people of the Tab- 

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ernacle, and being, himself, much at home with them, they 
naturally turned to him for pastoral service out of the pulpit. 
He was appointed, in 1896, assistant pastor, and continued to 
fill the office until September 1, 1898, when he resigned in 
order to assume the pastorate of the Fourteenth Street Presby- 
terian Church. At his departure the Tabernacle Church passed 
a vote recording their appreciation of the ability and fidelity 
with which he had fulfilled his duty in both churches. Decem- 
ber 15, 1896, Mr. N. Miller Pratt, who had been an effective 
worker in the Bethany field while pursuing his studies in Union 
Theological Seminary, was ordained to the Christian ministry 
and appointed associate pastor of Bethany Church. To carry 
on still more effectively the pastoral work of the Tabernacle, 
Miss H. M. Rowe was employed as church visitor. 

November 18, 1897, Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, pastor of 
the Central Congregational Church of Chelsea, Mass., preached 
in the Tabernacle. He was not before the people as a candi- 
date, as there was a general impression at that time that Dr. 
Raymond would eventually become the pastor of the church. 
In January the committee waited on Dr. Raymond to ascer- 
tain whether he would take a call into consideration, but were 
informed that his college obligations were paramount, and 
would preclude his removal to New York. Their minds then 
turned naturally to Mr. Jefferson, and on February 2, 1898, 
the joint committee, appointed by church and society, made a 
unanimous recommendation that a call be given to him, a&d 
a salary of $10,000 offered. This recommendation was adopted 
by a vote of one hundred and six to one. The call which was 
accordingly given included a clause, suggested by The Con- 
gregationalist and probably here used for the first time, as 
follows : 

" It is understood and agreed that if, at any time, either party shall 
be convinced that the pastoral relation thus established should be ter- 
minated, three months' notice shall be given (by vote of the church 
transmitted to the pastor by its clerk, or by letter from the pastor to 
the church), and the matter shall be referred to a mutual council for 
approval and advice." 

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A committee waited upon Mr. Jefferson in Chelsea and 
brought back the following acceptance of the call they had 
presented : 

" To the Broadway Tabernacle Church and Society: 
" Dear Brethren : — 

" Your call to me to become your Pastor and Teacher is received ; 
and I accept it. If agreeable to the church which I am now serving 
and also to you, we will begin our work together on the first Sunday 
of the coming month. 

" I fully realize, I think, the vast responsibility which I take upon 
me in assuming the leadership of your church in the great work which 
the Lord has given you to do. But the chain of circumstances leading 
up to your calling me was so extraordinary and apparently so provi- 
dential that I cannot help feeling that the Holy Spirit has been working 
both in your hearts and in mine to bring us together at this important 
hour in the history of the Tabernacle Church. I am coming then, in 
the full assurance that it is God's will that I should come; and with 
His promised grace and benediction our work for Him cannot be in 
vain. 

" Sincerely yours, 

" Charles E. Jefferson. 

" Chelsea, Mass., February ioth, 1898." 

Rev. Charles Edward Jefferson, son of Dr. M. Jefferson, was 
born in Cambridge, O., August 29, i860. His grandfather on 
the Jefferson side came from Virginia. On the mother's side, 
his ancestors were from the Isle of Guernsey and had in their 
possession the estate which has become famous in recent times 
as having been the home of Victor Hugo. Mr. Jefferson gradu- 
ated from the high school of his native town in 1877, the 
valedictorian of his class. He entered the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity at Delaware the following year, and, after gaining dis- 
tinction among his fellows as a writer, taking the highest hon- 
ors at the Ohio State oratorical contest, in 1882, and filling 
the position of editor-in-chief of the college paper during his 
Senior year, he graduated in 1882. He became superintendent 
of public schools in Worthington, O., that autumn, filling the 
position for two years. The second year he was also study- 
ing law under the direction of Mr. James E. Wright of Colum- 
bus. In the fall of 1884 he went to Boston and entered the 
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middle class of the Boston University Law School; but, fall- 
ing almost immediately under the influence of Phillips Brooks, 
he gave up the law for the ministry and entered the School 
of Theology of the same university in the winter of 1884, and 
graduated in June, 1887. He married Miss Belle Patterson, of 
Cambridge, O., August 10, 1887. On September 4th, of the 
same year, he became pastor of the Central Church of Chelsea, 
Mass., where he continued until his removal to New York. 

Mr. Jefferson had various opportunities, which he did not 
embrace, to change his field of labor. But he had decided, after 
some years in Chelsea, not to remain there longer than ten 
years. Chelsea is overshadowed by Boston, and its chance of 
growth is small; and the Central Church, it seemed to him, 
had been developed nearly to the limit of its possibilities. In 
his letter of resignation he gave some further reasons for this 
decision : 

" After a decade of hard work in the same field I cannot help feeling 
that I ought to avail myself of the relief which a change of pastorate 
affords. The life of a city minister is exacting and exhausting, and it 
refreshes and enlarges a man to give him occasionally the advantage 
of a change of problems and the stimulus of a new environment." 

Meantime the Piedmont Church, of Worcester, Mass., had 
made overtures to Mr. Jefferson which had not been discour- 
aged, and an official call was given him from that church on 
January 21st, while the Tabernacle committee were considering 
the matter of recommending his name for their pastor. Mr. 
Jefferson stated the case frankly to the committee of the Pied- 
mont Church; the Tabernacle committee hastened their deci- 
sion ; the call to Worcester was declined January 29th ; resigna- 
tion of the Chelsea pastorate offered February 2d; and the 
whole complication managed with so much despatch, tact, cour- 
tesy, and Christian forbearance that, though one church was 
bereaved and another disappointed, no one was aggrieved. 

Mr. Jefferson's relations with his church in Chelsea had 
been unusually happy. They had given him large liberty, en- 
thusiastic co-operation, and love ; and the public prints of the 
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day assert that no man had done more for the city during the 
ten years of his life in it than had he. He led and engineered 
the movement which had made Chelsea for eight years a " No- 
License " city, besides doing much for the good name of the 
town in other ways. His influence was recognized through- 
out the whole region, and when a farewell reception was ten- 
dered the pastor and his wife, in the two hours between eight 
and ten in the evening, more than 1,200 persons took them by 
the hand; and the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, who had 
been in session all the evening, dropped their work long enough 
to come to the church a few moments before ten o'clock that 
they too might add their word of appreciation and good-will. 

Mr. Jefferson was dismissed from his charge in Chelsea by 
a council held on February 28th, then, followed by the love 
and prayers of the church from which he had parted, he be- 
gan work in New York on the Sunday appointed. 

The ecclesiastical council called for his installation, which 
included all the Congregational churches in the Manhattan- 
Brooklyn Conference together with the churches in Montclair, 
N. J., and the Central Church, of Chelsea, Mass., convened on 
April 19th. The council approved the action of the church, and 
the installation ensued. The clergymen who took part in the 
service were as follows : Rev. R. J. Kent, D.D., Lewis Avenue 
Church, Brooklyn, Prayer of Invocation; Rev. Franklin Gay- 
lord, Trinity Church, New York, Scripture Lesson; Rev. A. 
Huntington Clapp, D.D., Prayer of Installation ; Rev. A. J. F. 
Behrends, D.D., Central Church, Brooklyn, Sermon; Rev. R. 
R. Meredith, D.D., Tompkins Avenue Church, Brooklyn, 
charge to the pastor ; Rev. A. J. Lyman, D.D., South Church, 
Brooklyn, Right Hand of Fellowship. The degree of Doctor 
of Divinity was conferred upon Mr. Jefferson, in 1898, from 
Union and Oberlin Colleges. 

Dr. Jefferson is a master of English, an artist in words. He 
has a keen incisive style, and he holds his audience to the last 
word. In a quiet way, without haste, without rest, he carries 
on the work before him, the cure of souls. 

A gain of membership began the first year. The work be- 
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gun by Mr. Richards before his departure, of sending letters 
to pastors of churches in New England and elsewhere, was 
continued in 1898. A circular letter was sent to 2,500 Con- 
gregational churches inviting them to give letters of introduc- 
tion to any young men or women who were intending to make 
New York City their home, in order that they might more 
easily find their way to the Tabernacle and receive a more 
prompt welcome. Among other new methods introduced were 
a class for the study of present-day problems as related to 
the church, meeting Sunday afternoons, led by Dr. Philip W. 
Ayres; a church monthly publication, The Broadway Taber- 
nacle Tidings, edited by the pastor ; and a service of song held 
each Sunday afternoon. Collections at Sunday morning and 
evening services were also introduced for the payment of cur- 
rent expenses, except when otherwise designated for specific 
objects. 

The Wednesday evening prayer-meetings took on a new in- 
terest, and the seats filled until it has now become a live and 
delightful mid-week service. Besides this, during his short 
term of service, Dr. Jefferson has substituted the observance 
of Holy Week for the Week of Prayer in January ; has intro- 
duced the keeping of watch night and an after meeting Sunday 
evenings, from January 1st to Easter; has organized an effort 
to reach students ; has presented yearly a valuable pastoral re- 
port; and has magnified Bible study so that now the name 
" Sunday-school " has been superseded by the more definite 
" Bible school." 

During the winter of 1900-1901 Mr. G. Andrew Gordon, a 
post-graduate student in Union Theological Seminary, ren- 
dered useful service as pastor's assistant, and has been engaged 
to give his whole time to the church after his ordination in 
June. 

The celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the church 
must be credited to Dr. Jefferson. The fiftieth anniversary had 
passed without special notice, and when the sixtieth arrived the 
church was none too ready to believe that a celebration could 
be made a success. Dr. Jefferson, however, knew that inertia 
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could be overcome, and he held fast to his purpose until the tide 
of interest began to swell and the whole congregation was swept 
along in a wave of enthusiasm, to make ready as noble a church 
celebration as the city has ever seen. 

In a masterly sermon preached January 27, 190 1, after the 
celebration was over, Dr. Jefferson took occasion to map out 
what in his judgment the Broadway Tabernacle Church of the 
future should be. In response to that sermon, by Easter morn- 
ing enough pledges had been given to wipe out the floating 
debt of the church, and the beginning had been made of a 
fund, the income of which shall be used for the employment 
of assistants in church work. 

But Dr. Jefferson has done a better work for the church than 
this : he has united and welded together the separate atoms of 
church membership, promoted fellowship, created a general 
confidence and harmony. And as it is the glory of the Con- 
gregational churches to magnify the preached word in the 
public assembly, as was the custom of our Lord, His apostles, 
and the early church, so he has taught the people righteous- 
ness, and has preached so as to warn sinners, comfort saints, 
and has done both for the glory of God. 



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CHURCH ACTIVITIES. 

The temporal affairs of the Tabernacle Church and Society, 
according to the custom of Congregationalists, have been in 
the charge of a Board of Trustees. Their work is responsible, 
burdensome, and too often unappreciated. The list of those 
who have thus given their best business knowledge and skill to 
this service is found with other lists of officers upon another 
page. 

DEACONS, CHURCH COMMITTEE. 

In the Tabernacle the deacons, as well as pastors, are per- 
manent officers of the church. They not only are a component 
part of the church committee but they perform special duties, 
among which is care of the needy sick and poor of the church. 
During the past twenty-five years the deacons have distributed 
from the fund entrusted to them, in behalf of brethren and 
sisters of the church, in money and the cost of coal, medical 
service, funeral expenses, etc., an amount averaging about 
$1,204 yearly. Besides this and ordinary expenses of the 
fund they paid for Centre Street Mission $1,200, for Armenian 
relief $100, and for a hospital-bed fund $2,772.56. 

For a long course of years a clerk, treasurer and four breth- 
ren, all annually elected by the church, together with the per- 
manent officers, constituted the Church Committee. After 
1889, when the election of the superintendent of the Sunday- 
school was put in the hands of the church, " a superintendent 
of the Sunday-school" was added to the committee, and in 
1893 the Permanent Rule read " Superintendents of the Sun- 
day-schools of the Church." In 1899 the number of elected 
members was made nine, as the rule reads at present. The 
general oversight of the interests of the church devolves upon 
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this committee, and for many years they appointed and planned 
the church sociables or pastor's receptions with aid from the 
Young Men's Association. The names of those trusted breth- 
ren who have been elected to this service of the church are 
given with the lists of officers. 



The first sexton whose name appears in the records was 
Mr. Savery, probably Mr. John S. Savery, who was one of 
the sixty-six original members. He was in office until 1842. 
At that time his salary was $300 and house- rent (in the build- 
ing). The following year Mr. W. H. Snow was appointed. 
He united with the church that year. At first the sexton had 
charge of renting the pews; but when Deacon Pitts was ap- 
pointed steward that work devolved upon him. In 1849 tne 
sexton received $250. At what time Mr. Walter Reid was 
appointed is not known. " Mr. and Mrs. Reid, kind, excel- 
lent people," lived in the building. He was employed prob- 
ably as early as 1846, and in 1852 he was sexton with salary 
of $500. May 31, 1854, Mr. Frederick Boyd was engaged 
and filled the position for forty-two years until his death, 
March 3, 1896. On taking up the work in the new Tabernacle 
his salary was fixed at $2,000, and remained about the same 
until it became necessary to supply more assistance for him, 
when he received $350 less. Mr. Boyd was succeeded by Mr. 
W. R. Fearn, who has continued to fill the office until the 
present. From the first, all the sextons have been members 
of the church. 

Since 1893 there has been a committee on pews, who have 
charge of renting seats. The committee of 1900 consisted of 
Messrs. Irving R. Fisher and Robert B. Fleming. 

THE CHOIR. 

From its organization, the Broadway Tabernacle has rec- 
ognized more fully than have most churches, the honored place 
of psalms and hymns and spiritual songs in Christian service. 
Dr. Finney found music to be the handmaid of religion; Mr. 
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Hale, with his household, aided and built up the choir. Dr. 
Thompson's versatile gifts included a keen appreciation and 
love of the best music the age afforded, and the service of 
music, in the public worship of the church, has always been 
entrusted to the church committee as a religious charge, rather 
than to the Board of Trustees. Said Dr. Thompson : 

" It has been the policy of this church to sustain a large and well- 
trained choir, composed as far as possible of those associated with the 
church, and thus to render the singing a prominent part of the worship 
of God. By this means hundreds have been attracted hither who have 
received the preached word into good ground and brought forth abun- 
dant fruit." * 

Church music in New York at the date of the organization 
of the Tabernacle Church was much influenced by Dr. Thomas 
Hastings, who was strenuous in his efforts to have the praises 
of God in the church sung by Christian men and women. 
The choir of the Tabernacle was under strong religious con- 
trol; its leading spirits were devout men and women, and 
many young people came, by way of the choir, into the church. 

The choir was organized in 1840 by Mr. George Andrews, 
who joined the church by certificate in 1842. His services at 
first seem to have been voluntary, but by 1843 he received $400, 
raised by subscription. The following year a regular salary 
of $200 was paid him. This may have been increased by sub- 
scription. He continued as leader until May 16, 1848. Dur- 
ing his temporary absence in 1842, Mr. Stephen Conover con- 
ducted the choir " in a highly creditable manner." Mr. W. 
Alpers, a fine musician, was organist until his resignation in 
1845. O ne t wno was an occasional attendant upon the Tab- 
ernacle services during the first years of its history writes 
that he has " forgotten who the minister was, but not the 
organist, W. Alpers." When Mr. Alpers missed a service 
his seat at the organ was occupied by Mr. Hale's daughter, 
Lucy, who played the piano for choir rehearsals. An organ 
was placed in the choir gallery back of the pulpit in 1844 by 

* Last Sabbath in the Broadway Tabernacle, p. 51. 

\ Mr. Samuel W. Green, Brooklyn. 

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the "organ association," to be used at church services, 
" without rent or charge." 

The first hymn and tune book used by the church was the 
" Christian Psalmist or Watts's Psalms and Hymns with co- 
pious selections from other sources," prepared by Doctors 
Hastings and W. Patton, and published in 1836. For two or 
three years the church discussed a change of hymn books. 
" The Church Psalmist," prepared by Dr. Beman of Troy, 
" for Evangelical Christians," had been suggested as a sub- 
stitute; but the committee to whom the matter was referred, 
in 1845, consisting of Messrs. Henry Camp, George Andrews, 
and David Hale, with Mr. Huntington, reported that it was 
inexpedient to make the change. It was not until 1849 
that Dr. Beman's book was adopted. Mr. Samuel G. Smith, 
who attended the Tabernacle services from 1843 to 1846, re- 
calls an incident which must have had some connection with 
this discussion. After commending a sacred concert, given 
by the choir under Mr. Andrews, probably the anniversary 
concert given Friday evening, May 10, 1844, he says: 

" The Tabernacle had a grand, imposing choir, and their music was 
always well adapted to the sentiments of the hymns. Dr. Beman of 
Troy preached on sacred music one Sunday evening, as he occupied 
the pulpit that day, and in the middle of his discourse made some 
scriptural quotation, and the choir at once took it up and rendered a 
fine anthem on the words, found in the ' Carmina Sacra ' collection." 

Among the singers of the first period were Mr. Jeremiah C. 
Lamphear, Mr. Andrews's business partner, and Messrs. Henry 
Camp, Chase, S. Conover, Fessenden, David and Richard 
Hale, Huntington, William Taylor, Edward F. Treadwell, 
and Charles H. Waterbury. Mr. Treadwell, who united with 
the church in 1843, was led to Christ while on a voyage to 
Buenos Ayres by his friend Richard Hale of the choir, who 
lent him Doddridge's " Rise and Progress " to read. Among 
the women singers of that period were Mrs. George Andrews 
(Miss Conover), Lucy T. Hale (Mrs. Conover), Rosina 
Hamill (Mrs. Treadwell), Laura Hale (Mrs. Camp), Sarah 
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M. Dempsey (Mrs. Moore), and Emma Taylor (Mrs. Gilson). 
Mr. J. L. Ensign, an able musician and leader of the orchestra 
of the Philharmonic Society, succeeded Mr. Alpers as organist 
in 1845, at a salary of $275. He was converted under Dr. 
Thompson's ministry and admitted to the church May 3, 1846. 
He is remembered not only as a musician, but as " a conse- 
crated man." When Mr. Andrews resigned his position as 
choir-master, Mr. Ensign was appointed sole director with a 
salary of $500. The Bradbury brothers were highly esteemed 
at that time as musical leaders, and William B. Bradbury was 
engaged in 1850 as vocal leader, receiving for his services 
$500 and the use of the Tabernacle two evenings in the year 
for concerts, Mr. William G. West proposing to pay $300 ad- 
ditional. Mr. Ensign continued as organist. November, 
1 85 1, a vote was passed that "the music as at present con- 
ducted meets with the hearty approval of the Society." Mr. 
Bradbury's compositions have been used for many years in 
the church, the prayer-meeting, and the Sunday-school, and 
have many sacred associations with them. The tunes to which 
are sung " He leadeth me," " Just as I am," " O bliss of the 
purified ! " " My hope is built on nothing less," " Sweet hour 
of prayer," " Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep ! " and many others 
equally familiar, are his. 

Mr. Ensign, who removed from the city early in the sum- 
mer of 1854, was followed by the special benediction of the 
church committee; but he left trouble behind. Mr. Brad- 
bury could not be re-engaged at satisfactory terms, and the 
choir were not pleased with the arrangements made for their 
leadership. Mr. George Andrews was called back for a sea- 
son, but affairs were at loose ends until, at last, Mr. F. H. 
Nash was secured as choir-master, and Mr. C. C. Converse 
as organist. Thanks to this difficulty in settling upon a 
chorister, the names are preserved of many, if not all, of the 
male members of the volunteer choir of 1854, attached to a 
protest or memorial in regard to the casting of votes, at meet- 
ings of the society, by unqualified members. As a result of 
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tritely after some months of discussion. The names of these 
protestants are given below : James D. Smith, S. W. Holister, 
A. Shannon, T. F. Brinsmade, John Gridley, E. L. Champlin, 
A. C. Peck, R. A. Dorman, W. G. West, Warren Ward, S. 
A. Castle, E. W. Pratt, Alexander Anderson, F. W. Sher- 
man, Isaac E. Smith, P. F. Whiting, Demarest. At 

the end of two years Mr. Converse went abroad, but before 
leaving he asked the privilege of uniting with the church upon 
confession of faith. His music is not yet outworn. Wor- 
shippers who sing " What a friend we have in Jesus," or 
" There's a wideness in God's mercy," naturally make use of 
his familiar composition. Mr. John W. Crane, Jr., was en- 
gaged to succeed Mr. Converse as organist, and he, too, united 
with the church on profession the following year. 

Already the custom had begun of paying one or two of 
the women singers. For some years before leaving the old 
Tabernacle, about $1,000 a year was appropriated for the 
expenses of the choir. Among the singers specified are Miss 
Meyers, Miss Parks, Mrs. Martin, and Miss Jenny Smith. 
Mr. Nash was the leader when the old Tabernacle was given 
up in 1857, but he resigned soon after that date, and Mr. James 
Davis succeeded him. 

In 1858 Mr. W. B. Bradbury was requested to prepare and 
conduct the music for the dedication services, and to organize 
a choir for that occasion. He did this work gratuitously and 
received therefor a special vote of thanks, which included also 
Mr. Henry Camp and the choir. But the singing gallery or 
loft in the new church was unsatisfactory. The choir was 
divided with the organ intervening so that the two sections 
could not hear each other or keep together; consequently the 
large choir was given up, and only a quartette or double quar- 
tette retained. 

At that period Mr. Henry Camp was choir-master of the 
First Presbyterian Church. He was also engaged for the 
Tabernacle, where he sang only in the evening — with Mr. Mor- 
gan as organist. He thus took charge of both choirs until he 
went with his regiment to Washington in 1861, and was suc- 
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ceeded in the Tabernacle by Mr. George N. Seymour, who 
retained the charge until his death, three years later. Mr. 
Camp, however, before he left, secured the services of Miss 
Marian McGregor, better known as Mrs. Christopher, who 
remained as organist until 1885, except for an absence of be- 
tween one and two years about 1870, when Mr. During took 
her place. It is said that Mr. Camp found it hard to persuade 
Dr. Thompson and the committee, before Miss McGregor's ar- 
rival, that a woman could handle that great organ. 

Mr. George E. Aiken succeeded Mr. Seymour; and Mr. 
Camp, Mr. George G. Rockwood, and other well-known sing- 
ers in New York assisted in making the famous musical af- 
fairs which were a feature of the big services in the war time 
and at its close. 

In 1867 the Committee on the Order of Sunday Service di- 
rected that the anthem that was to be sung should be read, 
morning and evening, and it was " understood " by the com- 
mittee that the " choir should be present at the weekly pray- 
er-meeting." About 1871 or 1872, Harry Millerd, the famous 
ballad writer, was director. It was while he was choir-master, 
in January, 1872, that an interesting petition in relation to a 
change in the order of Sabbath singing was presented to the 
committee, who, not having been altogether satisfied with the 
character of the opening anthems, had restricted the choir to 
" two selections of music, chants, hymns, or anthems, chosen 
by the committee of the church." Their selection of the Dox- 
ology in place of an anthem proved still less satisfactory. 
This petition was drawn up in Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts's 
handwriting and hers is the first signature: 

" We, deeming the late change in the music detrimental to the in- 
terests of the church and also a great deprivation to us individually, 
respectfully pray that the former order of service be resumed, restoring 
to us both the opening selection of praise and the anthem after the 
first hymn." 

Among the leading women singers up to this time were 

Mrs. Elliot (Anna Stone, Boston's famous oratorio and concert 

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singer), Mrs. Northrup, Mrs. Brown, Miss Meyers, and Miss 
Charlotte V. Hutchins (Mrs. Winterburn) . Mr. Rockwood 
followed as choir-master and again introduced the double 
quartette with some really famous singers, Jules Lombard, Miss 
Kate Stark, Mrs. Doty. This was when Mr. William Allen 
was chairman of the music committee. He fostered and en- 
couraged the department in many ways. A number of singers 
attended weekly prayer-meeting; Mrs. Doty led the singing 
there, and Miss Kate Stark in the Sunday-school. 

Afterward Mr. Aiken returned with a single quartette, at 
the head of which for a short time was Miss Emma Thursby, 
who was paid at the rate of $3,500. Later organists have 
been Professors S. N. Penfield, George N. Greene, and Mr. 
Charles B. Hawley, who was basso for seventeen years and 
is in his twentieth year of continuous service as conductor. 
Miss Marie S. Bissell has also rendered long and faithful ser- 
vice as soprano. Among other noted singers in the Taber- 
nacle choir may be mentioned Miss Louise Finch (Mrs. Har- 
denburgh), Miss Toedt, Miss Henrietta Beebe, and Mr. 
Dennison. 

In 1875 the amount paid for the support of music had gone 
up from the modest thousand dollars a year to $6,241. By 
1 88 1 this amount had fallen off about $2,000; then it rose 
gradually until by 1891 it amounted to $6,793.70. Since 1893, 
however, the amount spent for the choir yearly has stood some- 
where between $4,000 and $5,000. 

THE BIBLE SCHOOL. . 

The beginning of the Sunday-school has already been men- 
tioned in a former chapter. A pupil of the school * in the 
early days of Dr. Thompson, writes: 

" We met at nine in the morning, and how cold it was sometimes for 
us little folks who trudged over from East Broadway of a winter morn- 
ing, hurrying to be there in time! I think the afternoon session must 
have been at two, and church at three or half-past three. The inter- 
* Miss Emily S. Gilman. 
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mission [between morning service and afternoon school] was quite long 
enough for lunch, which we brought, and for considerable exploring 
and inspecting of the building, trying seats in the gallery, choir, pulpit, 
even the little mirror in which the organist could see the minister's 
movements. It seems to me that the attendance in the afternoon varied 
from that in the morning, perhaps it brought a different set of children. 
" The neighborhood was a very bad one, near the old Five Points, 
and my sisters, who were teachers, went to some very questionable 
places in looking up scholars. Our very walk to church — more than a 
mile — was a choice of evils. We could go through Chatham Street to 
Pearl, and so over to Broadway, or through Walker Street. Grand 
Street was a little better because there were stores there, but it was 
longer. Those were the days of vile smells and dirty streets. Pigs ran 
freely in the streets of the Seventh Ward and sewers were the excep- 
tion, not the rule." 

No records of the school in lower Broadway have been 
found, but programmes have been preserved of large Sunday- 
school celebrations and concerts held in the Tabernacle, and 
a Sunday-school missionary meeting is recalled that was held 
in the church one Sunday evening, when small children filled 
the choir gallery until all the space was occupied even close 
to the organist. In 1847 the church committee voted that the 
" Sunday-school Missionary Association " should " hold a 
public meeting on the Sabbath, November 22d, and take up 
a collection." Probably that was the same occasion. 

About 1854 the Sunday-school was in the care of " Brother 
William G. West." From 1859 to 1866 the superintendents 
were Mr. Starr, Deacon Holmes, Deacon Smith, Mr. Charles 
A. Bull, and "Brother Pardee" in 1865. Mr. Caleb B. 
Knevals was chosen for that office in 1866, and served for 
twenty years. Mr. Knevals was succeeded by Messrs. John 
Lindley (who served 1886 and 1887); E. P. Lyon, 1888; 
and R. A. Dorman, 1889-92. In October, 1893, a morning 
session was introduced, with Mr. W. H. Sherman superin- 
tendent. Mr. Rufus Adams was superintendent of the after- 
noon school, 1893-94, and Mr. Herbert G. Thomson of 
the morning school, 1894-95. Mr. Irving C. Gaylord was 
chosen superintendent of the afternoon school in 1895, and 
the following year that department was relinquished, the Pri- 
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mary Class only, holding both morning and afternoon sessions. 
Mr. Thomson and Mr. Gaylord superintended the joint school. 
In 1897 Mr. Harris H. Hayden was elected, and has served as 
superintendent to the present time. Several assistants filled 
long terms of service ; among these should be mentioned Messrs. 
A. K. Thompson, William Ives Washburn, and Nathaniel C. 
Fisher. The average attendance during the twenty years of 
Mr. Knevals's term of office was between three and four hun- 
dred. Miss Sarah Smith had charge of the infant class for 
many years. As early as 1865 she taught the little children. 
Mrs. Lefferts Strebeigh, who was one of her scholars, says : 

" A sweeter, finer nature to teach little children, it seems to me, could 
never have been found. We all loved her." 

In 1881 Miss Smith was assisted by Mrs. Henry Hayes 
and Miss May Leveridge. When Miss Smith relinquished the 
class in 1882 Miss Leveridge took her place, aided by Miss 
Fanny Sanford. The following year Mrs. D. S. Pillsbury 
took charge, serving indefatigably for six years. Her suc- 
cessor was Miss Isobel M. Taylor, 1889-92. Then Miss El- 
len C. Parsons succeeded to the charge ; afterward, when the 
morning school was established, taking that session and holding 
it unto the present. The afternoon class was in charge of Mrs. 
Rufus Adams until her death. She was followed by Miss J. 
Jillson, and Mrs. J. S. Warren has the present charge. Most of 
these teachers have had one or more able assistants. Last year 
a Home Department numbering thirty-three was established 
under the superintendence of Miss Teasdale. The Tabernacle 
has been rich in gifted Bible teachers, but their work has not 
been faithfully reported. There have been Sunday morning 
and afternoon classes, and classes on week-days. Rev. Dr. 
Thompson had a young men's Bible class, as well as his class 
for women, and it was at the request of these young men that he 
wrote " The Sergeant's Memorial." Among these young men 
were Messrs. Austin Abbott, W. H. Bridgman, Charles Bell, 
Henry C. Hall, Charles T. Rodgers, W. H. Thomson, and 
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Charles S. Smith. Dr. William H. Thomson has held Sunday 
classes morning or afternoon ; as early as 1866 he had a ladies' 
class, and in 1868 a class for young men on Sunday mornings, to 
say nothing of his wider service at the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association. Mr. Abbott had a young men's class in 
1866, and Mr. Wakeman a Sunday afternoon class. Dr. Tay- 
lor had his Pastor's Bible class. Among Bible class teachers 
in the Sunday-school have been Mr. W. W. Fessenden, Dr. 
Lafayette Ranney, Mr. Samuel Burnham, Mr. John H. Wash- 
burn, Mrs. Doran, Mr. Platner, Mrs. Clarence Beebe, Mr. F. L. 
Underwood, Mrs. R. A. Dorman, and Mr. George L. Leonard. 
Other successful teachers of the later period have been Pro- 
fessor A. D. F. Hamlin, General O. O. Howard, Rev. F. B. 
Richards, and Professor D. H. Holmes. 

In 1886 the Sunday-school was put more directly under the 
charge of the church. The superintendent was made a church 
officer, to be elected at the annual meeting, and to make an 
annual report to the church. It was resolved that, so far as 
practicable, it should be the rule that at least one of the dea- 
cons should have some connection with the school either as 
officer, teacher, or visitor; that a committee made up of three 
members of the church committee, two Sunday-school teach- 
ers and the pastor, should have charge of looking up teachers, 
who as a rule were to be members of the Tabernacle Church. 

Dr. Ranney, who was long connected with the school, did 
much for its spiritual growth. About 1869, and later, there 
was not only a teachers' prayer-meeting after the session, but 
one for boys led by Dr. Ranney, and one for girls under Mrs. 
Bunnell. Dr. Henry D. Ranney instituted, in 1879, the Char- 
ity Fund Committee in order to distribute gifts of food, cloth- 
ing and money among the poor, and to carry on a work 
which the school had begun by giving, instead of receiving, 
Christmas gifts. This became an important feature of the 
Sunday-school. Regular contributions of the school, in 1879, 
were distributed by its missionary committee, were given to 
twelve different objects, and amounted to about $500. The 
enrolment in 1900, including the Home Department, was one 
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hundred and eighty-six, and the contributions amounted to 
$246.08. 

departments of missions and charities. 

Aside from the Sunday-school and benevolent work of the 
women, the church activities for a long period were con- 
ducted through four departments, in the main as laid out 
by Dr. Thompson. From 1872 to 1885, when they were super- 
seded by the Board of Missions, the Department of Mis- 
sions was in charge of Mr. Francis A. Palmer (seven years), 
of Mr. Charles S. Smith (six years) ; the Department of 
Visitation of Poor and Sick was directed during the same 
period by Mr. James Talcott (four years), Mr. Joseph S. 
Case and Dr. E. P. Hoyt (one year each), and Mr. Charles 
Whittemore (five years) ; the Department of Contributions, 
Messrs. Charles Abernethy (one year), Cornelius N. Bliss 
(three years), W. D. Moore (five years), Hamilton S. 
Gordon (two years) ; and the Department of Education, 
Messrs. E. B. Finch (one year), Austin Abbott (two years), 
C. B. Knevals (two years), H. F. Hills (five years), and Lu- 
cien C. Warner (two years). Several thousand dollars was 
expended yearly through these departments, and from $300 to 
$500 for the education of young men for the ministry. 

Many mission schools were established. The report of 1842 
refers to " four other flourishing Sunday-schools." Not many 
years later there is record of " Brother Amzi Camp, city mis- 
sionary in the Sixth Ward, with Sunday-school in Centre 
Street." Rev. Mr. Camp came into the church in 1843. In 
1852 a revival is reported in the mission schools and station 
of Amzi Camp, Centre Street. Later Mr. F. Link was teacher 
there, and tract distributer. In 1862 a collection of nearly 
$100 was taken up to aid the Mission Church in Centre Street, 
and a committee appointed to give permanent aid. Contribu- 
tions from the deacons' fund for the same object have already 
been noted. 

In 1855 the mission school of Brother Holmes, Munroe 
Street, and the colored school of Brother Walker, in Thomas 
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Street, are referred to. It is recorded that " Mr. Wetmore 
had charge of the Bethel Mission Sunday-school of the 
Mariner Church in Roosevelt Street, assisted by Augustus 
Gaylord and Samuel Holmes." 

In i860 a Sabbath and industrial school was established at 
Fifty-fourth Street by members of the Pitts Bible Class. In 
1861 a mission and industrial school is reported on Forty- 
seventh Street, and in 1866 the mission school in charge of 
Mr. T. S. Berry, in the hall on Sixth Avenue and Thirty- 
ninth Street, is discussed. Arrangements were soon made for 
securing a chapel on Forty-eighth Street between Eighth and 
Ninth Avenues, and a Congregational church was organized 
under the care of Rev. Mr. Baker. The school was removed 
from Thirty-ninth Street to this chapel, still in Brother T. S. 
Berry's care, with forty teachers, three hundred and fourteen 
scholars, thirty or forty volunteer visitors, and a Bible reader 
working in the vicinity of the chapel. An industrial school 
was established by ladies of the Tabernacle in 1867. In 1868 
the Forty-eighth Street work was discontinued because " satis- 
factory arrangements " could not be made. The chief mission 
of the church, however, has been Bethany, which will be 
considered later. 

YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION. 

The Christian activity of the young men of the Tabernacle 
was from its first organization largely expended upon mission 
enterprises. A Young Men's Association was organized dur- 
ing Dr. Thompson's pastorate, and it was its committee that 
established the Bethany Mission. The young people's prayer- 
meeting was also dependent upon it for support. As early 
as 1872 this meeting was held Sunday evenings before ser- 
vice. In 1875 the prayer-meeting was held on Monday even- 
ings, and in the following year changed to Tuesday. In 
1872 the Young Men's Association lapsed and the Literary- 
Union was substituted for it. This society met on the first 
and third Saturdays of the month at eight in the evening. In 
1876 it voted to admit young women to membership, but at 
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the end of the year relinquished the experiment. The Literary 
Union and the prayer-meeting for young people seem both to 
have been given up some time in 1878 or 1879. 

In 1882 a committee of young men attempted to re-estab- 
lish the young people's prayer-meeting, on Tuesday even- 
ing as before, but unsuccessfully. In 1886 a young men's 
prayer-meeting was held after the Sunday evening service, 
and in 1887 it became again the " Young People's " meeting 
and continued until 1889. 

In 1888 the Young Men's Association was revived. It not 
only conducted the Sunday evening after-meeting, but it 
opened a reading-room with a reference library and the stand- 
ard periodicals. It held meetings before which addresses were 
given about once a month in the winter, and in 1888 there 
were one hundred and ten names on its roll. Its rooms were 
open every evening from seven to ten, and the yearly cost of 
carrying on its work was about $550. The average attendance 
at its reading-room increased until, in 1891, the names of 
three hundred and fifty different visitors were noted. Its 
lectures were well attended, as was also its Sunday morning 
Bible class conducted by Professor A. D. F. Hamlin. In 1892 
regular monthly meetings were held for business and sociabil- 
ity. The following year, in a time of great industrial depres- 
sion, it did what it could to help young men who were out of 
employment, and secured permanent positions for twelve. 
Among those connected with it as presidents or who served offi- 
cially more than one year were Messrs. Rufus Adams, Will- 
iam G. Bates, Charles E. Bruce, Alfred D. F. Hamlin, Albert 
A. Johnson, Jr., Martin L. Lee, Charles F. Richards, Hubert 

E. Rogers, and Amos H. Stephens. Its report appears last 
in the year-book of 1894. 

THE MEN'S ASSOCIATION, 

is reported in 1896 as being the result of the efforts of Rev. 

F. B. Richards, its president. It appointed various commit- 
tees: on visitation, morning service, evening service, prayer- 
meeting, Sunday-school, missionary and social work, and 

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Bethany. In 1898 Mr. Irving C. Gay lord succeeded Mr. Rich- 
ards as president. In 1899 the association was reorganized 
with a new constitution as 

THE MEN'S LEAGUE. 

This society holds monthly meetings, promotes the work of 
the church, and cultivates friendliness, sociability, and Christian 
intelligence among its constituency. Its president in 1900 was 
Dr. Frank B. Carpenter. 

BETHANY SUNDAY-SCHOOL AND CHURCH. 

The Bethany work began in the autumn of 1868. A Sun- 
day-school, on the corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Eighth 
Avenue in the care of the American Sunday-school Union, 
was about to be closed. A good friend of the school inter- 
ested Mr. Charles L. Hall, then a member of the Young Men's 
Association of the Broadway Tabernacle, in keeping the 
school alive. He brought the matter before the association, 
which appointed him with two other young men, Robert W. 
Haskins and Hamilton S. Gordon, a committee to visit the 
school. Mr. Hall, now a missionary of the American Mission- 
ary Association at Fort Berthold, N. Dak., and Mr. Gordon 
were college classmates, and both Mr. Hall and Mr. Haskins 
were then studying for the ministry, All were members of the 
Tabernacle Church. Thus there were ties that bound the three 
closely together, but it was Mr. Hall's enthusiastic tempera- 
ment that urged them forward and made the Bethany Sunday- 
school a possibility. 

The first session of this school, under the charge of the 
Young Men's Association, was held in November, with four 
other young men assisting. Its officers were Robert W. Has- 
kins, superintendent; Charles L. Hall, assistant superin- 
tendent; Hamilton S. Gordon, secretary; Charles L. Hall, 
treasurer. The growth of the school was small until Mr. Has- 
kins found a suitable hall on the corner of Thirty-sixth Street 
and Ninth Avenue, and two members of the Tabernacle Church, 
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Messrs. Charles Stewart Smith and Caleb B. Knevals, who 
were ready to guarantee the rent, and signed a lease for 
three months. The school moved to this hall in November, 
1869, when scholars crowded in so rapidly that the average 
attendance in 1870 was three hundred and eleven. The Taber- 
nacle Church appropriated $2,300 for the work in 1870, and 
$4,000 was raised for it the next year. 

Soon after moving into the hall an evening preaching service 
was established and the two theological students, with still 
another, Robert Loring, took turns in conducting it. The 
hall was light and airy, in the midst of a populous neighbor- 
hood ; the officers of the school devoted much time to it, they 
consulted together when the session had closed on Sunday 
afternoons, took their tea together in the building, and re- 
mained for the evening service, besides devoting to the work 
a good share of their evenings through the week. A strong 
corps of faithful teachers, men and women, joined them and all 
worked harmoniously together. The average attendance of 
the school for the first ten years in its new quarters ranged 
from 352 to 669. It reached its highest number in 1894, namely 
916. 

On first occupying the hall a rough element forced its way 
in, and some attempts were made to disturb the gatherings 
assembled for recreation, school, or worship; but the young 
men who had matters in charge were muscular Christians and 
soon put a stop to lawlessness, although one of the student 
preachers was once stabbed with a pocket-knife by a reckless 
youth, while enforcing order. 

The first mission pastor was Rev. Rufus Underwood, ap- 
pointed in 1872. Mr. Frederick Link, who had been con- 
verted in London under Dr. Finney's preaching and had been 
a member of the Tabernacle Church for seventeen years, was 
made superintendent the same year. By that time the Beth- 
any work was under the Departments of Missions and Chari- 
ties, and the five managers of the departments, together with 
the school superintendent and church treasurer, constituted a 
board for the management of the mission. The expenses of 
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the work for 1873 were estimated at over $6,ooo. Two visi- 
tors and a Bible reader were employed. A Thursday evening 
prayer-meeting was well attended, a young people's Bible class 
and prayer-meeting held on Monday evenings; a Bethany 
Christian Association organized, whose officers were Messrs. 
H. W. Carey, C. W. Miner, and S. A. Bacon. 

Converts of the Bethany Mission united with the Taber- 
nacle Church; but by 1872 its Bethany members were de- 
sirous of having the communion service administered in their 
own place of worship; so, in that year, two seasons of com- 
munion were observed at Bethany. 

Rev. William Plested became the pastor May 1, 1874, at 
which time there was an attendance of from fifty to sixty 
at morning service and from sixty to ninety in the evening. 
There were special evening meetings held by the pastor for 
some months during the next year, and thirty-two were ad- 
mitted to church membership; and in 1876 twenty- four came 
into the Tabernacle Church from Bethany. On February 28, 
1873, a plan was at last adopted for the proposed organiza- 
tion of Bethany Church, and when it was constituted, April 
13th, ninety members from the Tabernacle formed the new 
church. Mr. Robert L. Hall was elected deacon; Mr. H. S. 
Gordon, clerk; Mr. Augustus C. Ohle, treasurer; Dr. Lu- 
cien C. Warner and Mr. Frederick Link, members of the 
church committee. Mr. Willard Scott became pastor, April, 
1878, and Rev. C. H. Burr, February 1, 1880. Mr. Burr also 
took charge of the Sunday-school, which was under the super- 
intendence of Dr. E. P. Hoyt when he came. After the sub- 
scription of $30,000, taken on Dr. Taylor's tenth anniversary, 
March 12, 1882, work was begun on Bethany's house of 
worship on Tenth Avenue between Thirty-fifth and Thirty- 
sixth Streets. The Bethany Sunday-school had been saving 
toward this object and contributed $2,549.94. The whole cost 
was about $60,000. This church was dedicated March 11, 
1883. In 1886 the Departments of Missions and Charities 
being done away with by the Tabernacle Church, the Bethany 
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Bethany were put in charge of a committee of three, known 
as the Board of Missions. Messrs. J. Howard Sweetser, 
Charles L. Mead, and Hamilton S. Gordon constituted the 
first Board of Missions, and, with the exception of Mr. Ed- 
ward L. Browning, no one else served on the committee until 
1895, when the Bethany Board of five was substituted for the 
committee, with one member elected by Bethany Church. Mr. 
Gordon has served on this board to the present, and so has 
kept up an unbroken official connection with the Bethany work 
since its beginning. 

During the eight years of Mr. Burr's pastorate the church 
membership more than doubled. He was followed by Rev. 
S. H. Bray in 1888, Rev. F. B. Richards, June, 1894, with 
whom was associated Rev. N. Miller Pratt, 1896 and 1897. 
Mr. Pratt was sole pastor in 1898, and resigned May, 1901. 
When Rev. C. H. Burr left, in 1888, Mr. Silas H. Paine be- 
came superintendent of the school and held the position until 
1897, when Rev. Mr. Richards took it in charge. Since 1898 
the school has been in the joint care of Rev. N. Miller Pratt 
and Messrs. Harris H. Hayden and Thomas A. Fair. 

The various plans that have been put in operation to help 
Bethany have been legion. As early as 1872 there were the 
devotional, entertainment, and charity committees, and much 
work has been accomplished along these lines; the latter, 
known later as the Department of Charities and Visitation, 
was constantly aided by the kindly doctors of the Tab- 
ernacle, and reported yearly to the manager who had the 
" Visitation of Poor and Sick " department. The cemetery 
association, " cottage " prayer-meetings, secular library opened 
in 1880, through the efforts of Dr. E. P. Hoyt; boys' reading- 
room, Christian Endeavor Society, singing classes, Girls' 
Club, Boys' Brigade, organized in 1894 and drilled by Colonel 
William G. Bates; kitchen garden; fresh-air benefactions, in- 
cluding Oneita Cottage provided by Mr. and Mrs. Paine; 
Young Men's Institute, Lafayette Club, Young Women's Club, 
are but a portion of these. 

But three important enterprises, carried on by women 
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of the Tabernacle, demand special notice; the Bethany Sew- 
ing School, the Helping Hand, and the Kindergarten. 

THE BETHANY SEWING SCHOOL, 

or Industrial School, as it was first called, was organized 
about 1869 by Mrs. A. K. Thompson and Mrs. Charles Whit- 
temore, and held on Saturday afternoons. In the winter of 
1870-71, Mrs. Whittemore, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, and 
Miss Mary S. Janes were appointed a committee to take 
charge of the school. As late as 1875 the annual report of 
the school was signed by the three ladies. The following 
year it was called the Bethany Sewing School and its officers 
were Miss Mary S. Janes, superintendent; Mrs. Charles 
Whittemore, Mrs. Wright Gillies, assistant superintendents ; 
Miss E. J. Kimball, secretary. In 1879 Mrs. Bliss was treas- 
urer. At that date the average attendance of scholars was 
over two hundred and of teachers was thirty-one. There were 
more than thirty girls only five or six years old, while the old- 
est was seventeen. The school was held Saturday mornings 
in the Northwestern Hall, which was light, cheerful, and com- 
modious. The girls were taught sewing upon garments which 
were carefully inspected, and those whose work was com- 
mendable were placed upon a Roll of Honor, to receive some 
special reward at the close of the term. A dressmaking class 
was added later. Housekeeping lessons were recited in con- 
cert from a little manual, a sort of domestic catechism. Bible 
verses were learned by heart from cards containing topical 
selections for the year. These were given the pupils for home 
study. The recitation of these verses was an important 
feature of the yearly closing exercises of the school. Dr. 
Taylor took much interest in these occasions. Once when 
detained by a wedding he sent word, to the delight of the chil- 
dren, that they must not recite their Bible verses until he came. 
During the sewing hour skilled musicians from the Taber- 
nacle sometimes cheered by their musical gifts the workers 
who used to speak of their " matinees at Bethany." Occa- 
sional evening gatherings were held for the girls and their 
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mothers. Mrs. Van Nest's little " Helping Hand " was re- 
ported in 1 88 1 ; and a coal fund was established later through 
which, as the records show, one mother with a large family- 
purchased in the course of years fifty-eight tons of coal. 

The high grade of the teachers and officers, their faithful 
attendance and the generous gifts they secured for the school, 
were quite remarkable. Many of them were women of ex- 
perience, mothers of families. Miss Janes for twenty-two 
years, until 1893, superintended the school. One teacher had 
a class for nineteen years, another was present every Satur- 
day of the session for twenty-one years. In 1884, when the 
number of teachers enrolled was fifty, the average attendance 
was forty-one; and with three hundred and forty-one pupils 
the average attendance was two hundred and ninety-eight. 
Many of the officers gave up their whole day, remaining 
through the afternoon to advise with one another, and to at- 
tend to details of the work. Miss Janes's report of the earlier 
years includes the names of officers of the society, " ideal asso- 
ciates in benevolent work," and she adds : 

" It seems like the chiming of bells to sound some of the names : 
Miss Tietjen, Mrs. Lucy Todd Bigelow, Mrs. William Taylor (Eleventh 
Street), Miss Macfarlane, Miss Wright, Mrs. Cilley, Mrs. Van Nest, 
Mrs. Houghton, Miss Paul. These have gone where they may have 
heard such words as these : ' I know thy works, thy labor and thy 
patience.' " 

The scholars were encouraged to assist others. They made 
some garments for those needier than themselves, and helped 
to educate the Indian ward of the school who was a pupil 
at Fort Berthold. A daintily dressed wax doll, known as 
" Bethany Bertha," was sent as visitor to the sick children in 
need of cheer, and was carefully tended and returned. 

In the winter of 1892-93 modern methods of teaching 
sewing were introduced with Mrs. Harlan Page Smith and 
Miss Eliza Inslee as superintendents. In 1895, at the request 
of the Tabernacle Church, the school with the Helping Hand 
and Kindergarten was put in care of the Society for Women's 
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Work which now carries on the department. Miss Inslee con- 
tinued to superintend the school until 1899-1900, when Mrs. C. 
Smith and Mrs. I. A. McKinstry were appointed to direct it. 

Among the former pupils of the school may be counted 
graduates of the Normal College, now teaching ; dressmakers ; 
a music teacher; a trained nurse and many mothers of fami- 
lies who testify that the benefits they received from the Bethany 
Sewing School were incalculable. 

BETHANY HELPING HAND. 

The work of the Helping Hand was begun in 1882 under 
the guidance of Mrs. L. M. Bates, first directress ; Mrs. Clark 
Bell, second directress; Mrs. Mary N. Wright, secretary; 
Mrs. Joel E. Fisher, treasurer. Weekly meetings were held 
the first year at the Tabernacle. The society removed to Beth- 
any Church in 1883. Funds were raised for the care of fifty 
women, and the next year sixty were regularly cared for. The 
society employs a missionary visitor who acquaints herself 
with the needs of families in the Bethany district, and 
furnishes the officers with a list of sixty or eighty deserving 
women who need aid and encouragement. Postal cards are 
sent inviting them to become members of the society. They 
meet one afternoon in the week, work is given out and the 
women are paid at the rate of ten cents an hour for their 
work, the pay being in garments made. Instruction is given, 
while work is going on, in practical matters that concern their 
home life, and religious instruction is not omitted. Many of 
the women have become attendants upon the Bethany services, 
some members of the church. Care of the sick has been sup- 
plied, also, at times, Christmas dinners and clothing. During 
Mr. Burr's pastorate he came to the meetings and gave religious 
teaching. In 1889 Mrs. Bates was obliged to relinquish the 
work, and the following year it was put in care of Mrs. 
Hamilton S. Gordon. It then received support through 
the Board of Missions. A Penny Provident Fund was estab- 
lished in 1891, which had one hundred and twenty depositors 
that year. In 1896 the care of Bethany Helping Hand was 
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transferred to the Society for Women's Work of the Tabernacle 
Church, under whose management it has since remained. 

At a session of the Helping Hand, in 1897, the Bethany- 
Foreign Missionary Auxiliary of the Woman's Board was or- 
ganized, Mrs. S. Bourne, president, and Miss Mary S. Janes, 
secretary and treasurer; a Cradle Roll was also formed. In 
1898 Mrs. Cephas Brainerd, Jr., was put in charge, and cook- 
ing classes were held in the homes of members. In 1900 Mrs. 
Brainerd was directress ; Mrs. J. K. Farwell, buyer and cutter ; 
Miss S. M. Miles, secretary; Miss S. M. Warren, treasurer. 

BETHANY KINDERGARTEN. 

The Bethany Kindergarten sprang out of Mr. Richards's 
strongly expressed desire for it in February, 1895, Dr. Stim- 
son's immediate earnest appeal for it, and the generous re- 
sponse of Tabernacle givers. Enough money was contributed 
to carry on the school during a term. A committee, of which 
Mrs. F. L. Underwood was chairman, was formed to organize 
the work and secure a teacher. Miss Cowles, a successful 
teacher and worker in charities, was engaged as principal with 
an assistant. The Kindergarten was opened, March 18th, 
with a limited enrolment of fifty children and an average of 
thirty-five after the first month. During that and the follow- 
ing year this school was largely indebted to Dr. and Mrs. 
Stimson's efforts for the encouragement and support it re- 
ceived. The children were taxed one penny a day, from which 
fund the small monthly expenses were met, the balance going 
to the general fund. 

In all, there have been under Miss Cowles's care more than 
three hundred and seventy-five children. At first they were 
received at four years of age and remained until seven, but 
latterly they have been received at three. Miss Cowles's work 
has been done through the Kindergarten, through home visits, 
and the Mothers' Club, organized January, 1898. She has 
been able to place several children in hospitals where they could 
receive special treatment. The Mothers' Club reported in 
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1899 a membership of eighty, with an average attendance of 
fifty at its six monthly meetings. 

For four years the Kindergarten was poorly housed at 
Bethany Chapel. In 1898 Miss Grace H. Dodge proposed 
that Bethany children should have the privilege of the 
Irene Club Home, then recently transferred to Thirty-fourth 
Street; but the Kindergarten Committee did not feel justified 
in increasing the expense of the school $270, for a year's rent. 
The following year the Society for Women's Work, to whose 
care the Kindergarten had been entrusted in 1896, voted to 
make a special effort to raise the money, and if possible to 
accept the offer. A contribution, from a generous friend of 
the work, of the full amount of the rent for the balance of 
the year, together with the encouraging help of Miss Dodge, 
made the change possible. Miss Cowles's salary had been in- 
creased, and that extra amount, with the expense of rent, 
brought up the yearly cost of the school from $810 to $1,125, 
but of this amount $200 was assumed by Miss Dodge. Be- 
sides substantial assistance from the Society for Women's 
Work, the Kindergarten has received frequent encouragement 
and gifts from individual members of the church, from the Tab- 
ernacle Bible School, and the Bethany Sewing School. The 
Bethany Kindergarten Committee in 1900 consisted of Mrs. 
Joseph D. Bryant, chairman ; Mrs. Thomas A. Fair, secretary ; 
Mrs. George W. Kemp, treasurer. 

CHINESE BIBLE SCHOOL. 

The Chinese Bible School was organized February 1, 1885, 
by Sidney L. Gulick, with one pupil. The second Sunday 
there were twenty-seven. From 1887 to 1890, when Mr. Guy 
Maine was missionary and interpreter, the school numbered 
fifty pupils with twenty-three teachers. When Mr. Maine left, 
many of the pupils followed him, and for some years after- 
ward the average attendance was only thirteen. Since 1895, 
when Mr. Pang became missionary and interpreter, the school 
has grown steadily in numbers and strength. In 1900 the 
average attendance was thirty-seven pupils and sixteen teach- 
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ers. Progress has been made in grading so that now three 
or four study together. Mr. Gulick was the first superin- 
tendent of the school. Messrs. Henry W. Sackett and Rufus 
Adams were on the committee of three that had the school 
in charge, with Mr. Gulick. In 1889 Deacon Henry W. Hub- 
bard succeeded Mr. Adams. He still remains an active mem- 
ber of the committee. Mr. Reuben B. Poole, Dr. William L. 
Stowell, and Dr. Charles E. Bruce have labored for the 
school, the last having been for some years its superintendent. 
From 1887 till 1895 a secular school was held on Monday. 
There are now fourteen Chinese names on the Tabernacle roll 
of membership, eight of whom have united with the church 
since Mr. Pang came to the school. A prayer-meeting is held 
for half an hour before school opens, conducted by the Chris- 
tian Chinese. The school contributes regularly to various 
missionary causes, especially to work in China and California. 
The committee at present is Dr. Edward W. Peet, superin- 
tendent; Henry W. Hubbard, Thomas S. Hope Simpson. 

SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S WORK. 

It was in 1893 that the two societies which held the women 
of the Tabernacle to home and foreign missionary work were 
consolidated. When the first annual report was given, Mrs. 
Henry A. Stimson was president; Mrs. Lucien C. Warner, 
vice-president; Miss Underwood, clerk; Mrs. Robert A. 
Sands, treasurer. It was divided into four general depart- 
ments: Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Local Charities, 
Church Aid. Seven business meetings are held yearly ; eighteen 
meetings are devoted to institutional, home, and foreign work. 
Since 1896 Mrs. Hamilton S. Gordon has presided over the 
society. 

THE HOME MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT 

subdivides its work among five committees who have care, re- 
spectively, of purchasing material and goods, cutting work, 
distributing it, packing and putting valuation upon trunks (for 
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missionaries), and receiving donations other than money. The 
chairman of the department, by the last year-book, was Mrs. 
Lefferts Strebeigh. This, as also the foreign missionary de- 
partment, has its own secretary and treasurer. 

No definite reports of the early home missionary efforts 
of the women of this church have been found. The " Sunday- 
school Missionary Association " was doubtless a home mis- 
sionary organization, as was the woman's society that sup- 
ported missionaries in " The Western Country," in 1845. 
" The ladies have gone forward with the various societies or- 
ganized by them," says the report of 1846. One of these must 
have been a home missionary society, but no records have 
come to light. The society that now reports as the " Home 
Missionary Department " was formed in the autumn of 1869. 
The women of the church had met together during the war 
to work in aid of the Sanitary Commission and other loyal 
societies; afterward, there were many city benevolences that 
absorbed their attention until Dr. Thompson expressed a wish 
to his Bible class that ladies of the Tabernacle should unite 
in work for some definite common object. Mrs. Thompson 
wrote notes to some, not in the Bible class, and with the assist- 
ance of the sisters, Mrs. Leavitt and Mrs. Hopkins, the Home 
Missionary Society was started with about fifteen members. 
Mrs. Thompson was made first directress of the society; 
Mrs. Leavitt, secretary; Mrs. L. M. Bates, treasurer. Money 
was raised by voluntary contributions, and quite a sum was col- 
lected outside the church. They sent trunks of clothing to 
home missionaries, as has been the custom ever since. The 
first printed report of the society was in its third year for 
the season of 1871-72. Dr. Taylor, like Dr. Thompson, in- 
terested himself personally in the society, and, as he had done, 
came to the meetings Tuesday morning, and closed them with 
Bible reading, a word of application and prayer. In the spring 
the season's work closed with a " tea-party," a social gathering 
where cakes and flowers were sold, and this money, with the 
entrance fees, was used for starting work the following year. 

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gave all the trunks in which clothing was sent and attended 
to their shipment ; Mr. J. H. Sweetser and Mr. W. D. Harper 
contributed new shawls; Mr. R. A. Dorman, chests of tea; 
one, a sewing-machine, others, whole pieces of cotton cloth, and 
flannel ; Mr. Armstrong, copies of Dr. Thompson's " Home 
Worship." 

Gifts of money were received from the Tabernacle and Beth- 
any Sunday-schools, from a Bible class, from the Kinder Sin- 
fonie Society, also a small legacy; and Mr. Matthew C. D. 
Borden for not less than sixteen years has collected yearly from 
benevolent men of the church, for the purchase of pulpit suits 
for home missionaries, amounts ranging from $250 to $750. 

The year 1887-88 showed the largest membership, includ- 
ing one hundred and seven ladies, sixty being present at some 
of the meetings, while the average attendance was forty-four. 
Twenty trunks were sent out, the aggregate value of which 
was $4,429.13. The highest valuation ever reached was in 
the season of 1890-91, when the twenty trunks sent were val- 
ued at $4,435.15. For the twenty-eight years from 1873-1900, 
inclusive, the average value of the missionary supplies of cloth- 
ing, bedding, table-linen, books, toys, and money sent in 
trunks each year was a little more than $3,000. 

Other special gifts, sent through the society, were subscrip- 
tions to newspapers, communion sets sent at various times, 
two services being for two newly organized churches from 
Messrs. Washburn and Warner; a cabinet organ and a home- 
missionary horse. The book-fund, under the particular super- 
vision of Dr. Taylor, enclosed in each trunk a collection of 
twenty-two volumes of his selection, to which he always added 
a copy of his " Paul the Missionary." When the society was 
federated it became an auxiliary of the Woman's Home Mis- 
sionary Union of New York State. 

" Of the gracious and graceful presidents of the Society and its 
founders, Mrs. Joseph P. Thompson, Mrs. Charles Abernethy, Mrs. 
John H. Washburn, Mrs. Matthew C. D. Borden, who gave to it much 
of their time and interest, of Mrs. Levi M. Bates, its faithful and effi- 
cient treasurer for twenty years, of Mrs. Henry C. Houghton, its sec- 
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retary, Mrs. Thomas W. Whittemore, Mrs. Nathaniel P. Fisher, Mrs. 
Lucius E. Chittenden, Miss Paul," 

and of their faithful co-workers, the historical report of the 
secretary, read at the sixtieth anniversary of the church, speaks 
with grateful recognition. Together they make a company of 
honorable women not a few. 

FOREIGN MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT. 

In 1873 three young girls, members of Mrs. Austin Ab- 
bott's Sunday-school class, formed themselves into a society 
for foreign missionary work. This little band was the nucleus 
of the Young Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society. Gradually 
the number increased to ten, and they then agreed to work 
regularly in Mrs. Abbott's parlor, to draw up a constitution, 
to call themselves the " Mission Band of Cheerful Workers," 
and to undertake the support of some foreign missionary. 
Naturally they assumed the support of Miss Carrie E. Bush, 
who had gone out as missionary to Turkey from the Broad- 
way Tabernacle Church, and whose father was an attendant 
upon its services and district secretary of the American Board. 

But interest was not confined to these young people. 
Substantial help was given by their elders in the church, who 
attended the sales and fairs and became honorary members. 
In 1886 subscriptions were asked for, and the elder ladies 
gave them with unfailing regularity. For two years Mrs. Ab- 
bott was president of the band; then, until 1880, Mrs. Thomas 
W. Whittemore served, the meetings being held in the par- 
lors of these ladies, with Miss E. R. Fisher as Vice-President. 
At the meetings the young people followed Miss Bush's foot- 
steps faithfully, and by means of the letters she wrote them 
they became interested in all her work. They not only paid 
her salary, but supplied her with a horse and many personal 
comforts. As the society increased to over thirty and then to 
a membership limited to fifty, it moved its place of meeting 
to the church parlors and chose officers from its own mem- 
bership. 

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By 1886 the Cheerful Workers became known as the Young 
Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society, and, by the time it was 
made a component part of the Society for Women's Work, 
more than $17,000 had been contributed to foreign missions 
by its means. At that date, 1893, it became an auxiliary so- 
ciety of the New York Branch of the Woman's Board of Mis- 
sions. It has contributed to a great variety of objects, to Mr. 
Hume's work in India, to the home for missionary children in 
Auburndale, Mass., to medical work of the Woman's Board, 
and to many schools. Contributions have averaged $700 an- 
nually. Since 1895 Mrs. Chas. E. Mitchell, with her warm 
enthusiasm, has led the department, has laid the foundation 
of a missionary library, has encouraged more generous giving 
by suggesting objects in which givers can take a personal inter- 
est, alluring the members to more devoted service and leading 
the way. 

LOCAL CHARITIES AND INSTITUTIONS. 

This department, of which Mrs. Cephas Brainerd, Jr., has 
been chairman for several years, includes the Bethany Sew- 
ing School, Helping Hand, Kindergarten, which have already 
been reported, and the Bethany Kitchen Garden, also the In- 
stitutional Committee by means of which the work of a num- 
ber of valuable city institutions, such as the Young Women's 
Christian Association and Home for the Friendless, are pre- 
sented to the society by accredited workers who have their 
several interests at heart. The fourth department of the So- 
ciety for Women's Work, is known as 

THE DEPARTMENT OF CHURCH AID. 

It was, when the last year-book was issued, under the care 
of Mrs. R. A. Dorman, and it is made up of two committees : 
Entertainment, Mrs. J. B. Mellick, chairman; and Hospital- 
ity, Mrs. William H. Thomson. Upon the efficient work of 
these two committees the social, friendly spirit of the church 
largely depends. Afternoon teas, receptions, dinners, or 
luncheons for conferences, are the responsibility of the Enter- 
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tainment Committee, while the privilege of welcoming strang- 
ers, caring for the sick or sorrowing in a friendly way, and 
visiting them, is enjoyed by the Hospitality Committee. 

THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR 

was formed Sunday evening, October I, 1893, with fifteen 
members. Before the close of the year its membership had 
increased to forty, with an average attendance of forty-five. 
When the church was without a pastor the membership de- 
creased, but in 1899 it reported an average attendance of sixty- 
six. January 1, 1901, its active membership was thirty-five, 
and its contributions $50. Its president is Mr. J. R. Ellen- 
wood. 

THE FLOWER COMMITTEE. 

This committee of ladies was also first appointed in 1893. 
Its duty is not only to decorate the church on festivals and 
special occasions, but to provide each Sunday for the Lord's 
house a floral offering that may afterward carry the 
kindly greetings of the church to some who have been provi- 
dentially debarred from attending its services. The chairman 
of the committee is Miss Anna C. Benedict. 

THE YOUNG WOMAN'S CLUB 

is one of the youngest enterprises of the society, organized 
by Dr. Jefferson, in December, 1899, to foster a spirit of 
friendliness and sociability among young women of the 
congregation. It has held ten meetings in the course of a 
year, and has discussed social and literary topics. Its mem- 
bership in December, 1900, was forty. Its two presidents 
have been Mrs. Franklin H. Warner and Miss Anna C. Mel- 
lick. 

LADIES' CHRISTIAN UNION PRAYER-MEETING. 

Imperfect and meagre as this sketch of the activities of the 

Broadway Tabernacle Church must of necessity be, it would 

be incorrect to leave unnoticed the prayer-meeting under the 

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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

direction of the Ladies' Christian Union that has been held 
in the chapel at eleven o'clock each Wednesday forenoon for 
nearly forty years. This meeting was founded by Mrs. Mar- 
shall O. Roberts, a warm personal friend of Dr. Thompson, as 
patriotic as himself, through whose kindly hand President 
Lincoln sent to Dr. Thompson as a token of regard and appre- 
ciation his own favorite gold-headed cane. Mrs. Roberts was 
from 1870 until her death, five years later, a member of the 
Tabernacle Church. 

It was during the great revival of 1857, while the Young 
Men's Christian Association was holding daily prayer-meet- 
ings, that Mrs. Caroline D. Roberts and her friend, the late 
Mrs. Charles Abernethy, felt that there should also be a union 
meeting for Christian women. They called upon many pas- 
tors and arranged for several meetings of the sort. These 
were held in the Church of the Puritans on Union Square, in 
the old New York University, in the Home for the Friendless, 
and other places. From that circle of praying women came 
the formation of the Ladies' Christian Union in 1858, of 
which Mrs. Roberts was the leading spirit. By the request 
of Dr. Thompson, a ladies' prayer-meeting was started by Mrs. 
Roberts in the parlors of the church very soon after the new 
Tabernacle was occupied. It was at first a small meeting; at 
times not half a dozen were present, but though often 
discouraged she persevered with sweet willingness. Mean- 
time Mrs. Deuel, another worker in the Ladies' Christian 
Union, assisted by Mrs. Roberts, held another union prayer- 
meeting in her parlors in Bond Street. The ladies who at- 
tended it generally belonged to the same association, of which 
Mrs. Roberts was first directress. When Mrs. Deuel married 
Governor Wright, of Indiana, who was appointed United 
States Minister to the Court of Berlin, her house was closed, 
and Mrs. Roberts invited the ladies who had frequented the 
meeting there to unite with those who met at the Broad- 
way Tabernacle. Thus, in 1864, there was formed what has 
been known as the Tabernacle Meeting of the Ladies' Chris- 
tian Union. 

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Church Activities 

This union meeting became of such deep and wide-spread 
interest, in 1866, that it was held daily, Sunday excepted, for 
three months following the Week of Prayer, which the Union 
always observed by daily meetings. The attendance over- 
flowed the two parlors upstairs, and the meetings were trans- 
ferred to the chapel, which was often filled to standing-room. 
In religious influence Mrs. Roberts was for years the greatest 
power among women in New York City. Dr. Thompson 
wrote : 

" For myself — I always felt that the pulpit could rest on this prayer- 
meeting as a background of moral support." 

One of the first calls for a large public meeting of prayer, 
issued by Mrs. Roberts and her associates, was to mothers 
of sons who, as members of the gallant Seventh Regiment, 
had just left New York at the outbreak of the civil war 
for their country's defence. The mothers came in crowds, 
and the mighty meeting was led by Mrs. Roberts. One of 
her last acts was to form a " Prayer Band," which had as 
many as 1,500 names recorded. The nobly sustained Young 
Women's Christian Association of this city was evolved from 
the Ladies' Christian Union, organized by Mrs. Roberts, that 
has sustained, these many years, the Ladies' Prayer-Meeting 
at the Tabernacle. 



CHAPTER X. 
THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY.* 

The celebration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Broadway 
Tabernacle did not mark with exactness the completion of sixty 
years. The church was organized July 30, 1840. But what 
church could celebrate an anniversary in New York City in 
July ? Times have altered, and the habits of New Yorkers 
have undergone such radical transformation as to render a 
midsummer celebration impossible. The church was or- 
ganized by council September 3d, but our September is dif- 
ferent from that of sixty years ago. No church can hold a 
festival when its members are scattered over half a continent, 
and that is the condition of the Tabernacle in the opening 
week of each September. It was, therefore, decided to organize 
the celebration around the sixtieth annual meeting of the 
church. 

The celebration began January 16th and closed the follow- 
ing Wednesday evening, and throughout the week, though the 
weather was cold, the enthusiasm could not be chilled. The 
only unfortunate condition of the entire week was the prevalence 
of the grippe. Thousands of cases were reported in the city, 
and a number of Tabernacle men and women were prevented 
by it from attending the celebration. 

When the chapel was thrown open on Wednesday evening 
of the sixteenth every seat was soon occupied, and the few late 
comers were obliged to stand. The meeting was one devoted 
to reminiscences. Only men with gray hair were allowed to 
speak. The first speaker was Deacon Charles Whittemore, who 
has been a member of the church for forty years. His sub- 

* This account of the celebration of the Sixtieth Anniversary is condensed 
from the Broadway Tabernacle Tidings, for February, 1901. 
I96 




REV. CHARLES E. JEFFERSON, D.D. 
Present Pastor, Called 1898 



The Sixtieth Anniversary I 

ject was " The Old Tabernacle." He was followed by Dea- 
con William B. Holmes, of Montclair. Mr. Holmes, along 
with his brother Samuel, joined the Tabernacle in December, 
1853, a "d on removing in 1870 to Montclair, N. J., had been 
one of the pioneers in the organization of the First Congrega- 
tional Church in that town, of which Dr. Amory H. Bradford 
has been the first and only pastor. Deacon Holmes's subject 
was " Memories of Early Times." The next speaker was Dea- 
con Richard A. Dorman, who joined the church while he was 
yet a boy in 1852. In church membership he is the oldest male 
member of the church. His subject was " The Early Pastors." 
He was followed by Deacon John H. Washburn, a member 
of the church since 1865. His subject was " The Old Strug- 
gles and Victories." The fifth speaker was Dr. William H. 
Thomson, who united with the church in 186 1. He spoke of 
" The Old Friends." All these five papers were carefully pre- 
pared, and, while dealing in large measure with the same char- 
acters and events, were widely different in treatment, and held 
the closest attention of the large and sympathetic audience. 
The last speech of the evening was not down on the programme, 
but was not surpassed in interest and impressiveness by any 
that had preceded it. It was given by Dr. Thomas S. Hast- 
ings, ex-President of Union Theological Seminary, for many 
years an admirer of the church and acquainted with its his- 
tory, at one time an attendant at its services, a close compan- 
ion of Dr. Taylor, and the dear friend of many members of 
the church. 

This meeting, designed to bring former things to mind, was 
specially enjoyed by the older people, but it held the youngest 
in delighted attention. Many of those who have joined the 
church in recent days had never known the glories of its 
golden history, and had never realized the richness of the in- 
heritance into which they had entered. 

A description of the meeting would not be complete with- 
out reference to the elaborate and tasteful decorations. On 
entering the door one scarcely realized that he was looking 
at a room with which he had been familiar for many years. 
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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

The walls were almost completely hidden by flags of all sizes 
worked into tasteful patterns and combinations, while the pul- 
pit was a garden of palms. It was the design of the commit- 
tee to whom the work of decoration had been entrusted to 
suggest to every mind and heart the part which the church 
had played in one of the crises of our national history, and 
the effect produced was the very one designed. All through 
the celebration one breathed the spirit of patriotism, and wher- 
ever the eye might wander it was certain to fall upon a flag. 

Two evenings later the great Reception was given. The 
primary purpose of a reception was to bring together not 
only the present members of the church, but the former mem- 
bers also, and likewise members of the general congrega- 
tion. This was all the more necessary as the celebration was 
to close with a dinner to which, owing to the scant accom- 
modation of the parlors, only present members of the church 
could be admitted. Special invitations were mailed to every 
Congregational church in Greater New York. Along with this 
invitation the pastor sent a personal letter to every Congrega- 
tional pastor in Greater New York, emphasizing the cordiality 
of the invitation and requesting that there might be from his 
church a goodly delegation of Congregationalists to rejoice 
with the mother church in her great festivities. It was pos- 
sible by a diligent study of the city directory to locate about 
two hundred former members who have joined other churches 
in this part of the world, and to each of these an invitation 
was mailed. 

The parlors were in holiday array for the Reception. The 
walls were covered with portraits and photographs of men 
illustrious in Tabernacle history, and wherever there was a 
space not occupied by a picture it was covered by a flag. The 
orchestra was in its place, filling all the room with music, and 
the tables in the corner were piled with good things to eat. 
The pastor and his wife, the deacons and their wives, the trus- 
tees and their wives formed a line across the north end of the 
parlor, ready to meet their guests. To the regret of all, the 
health of Mrs. William M. Taylor would not allow her to be 
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The Sixtieth Anniversary 

present, and one of her daughters, Mrs. Maitland, with her hus- 
band, took her place. For three hours the guests came and 
went incessantly. Three hospitality committees had been ap- 
pointed; the first a committee of twelve young women, the 
second of twelve young men, the third of twelve young mar- 
ried couples, the idea being to bring to the front the younger 
life of the church, that the guests might see that the Taber- 
nacle has not only a past but a future. Also in addition to 
these three committees there was a corps of twelve ushers. For 
all these there was a busy evening. Every square foot of 
space was occupied, but the crowd was not too great for com- 
fort. 

After nearly two hours of conversation, the chairman of 
the committee, Dr. Fisher, called on Dr. W. J. Peck, for 
many years the pastor of an independent church in Corona but 
still a member of the church, to speak for non-resident mem- 
bers. After him the chairman called upon Mr. Charles Stewart 
Smith and Mr. James Talcott to speak a few words on be- 
half of former members of the church. These speeches were 
followed with the closest interest. Dr. Frank E. Ramsdell, the 
new pastor of the Pilgrim Church in Harlem, was then intro- 
duced to give the greeting from Congregational churches in 
Manhattan and the Bronx. The last speaker of the evening 
was Dr. T. B. McLeod, pastor of Clinton Avenue Church in 
Brooklyn, who brought warm greetings from sister churches 
across the East River. There were many churches represented, 
and after living an evening in an atmosphere so warm and 
bracing it was easy to believe that Congregational fellowship 
is indeed a vital and substantial reality. 

Sunday was the great day of the feast. The programme em- 
braced a sermon in the morning, by the pastor, in the afternoon 
a Sunday-school celebration with interesting features, in the 
evening a Christian Endeavor meeting with historic papers, 
and at eight o'clock a Fellowship Meeting with addresses by 
five distinguished clergymen representing as many branches of 
the Christian Church. Sunday arrived bright and cold. 

The auditorium was a picture worth seeing. A member of 
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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

the church, wishing nothing to be left undone to make the 
celebration complete, had sent to the decorating committee a 
check so generous that they were able to provide the most 
artistic adornment. All around the church the flags extended, 
and what a dream of beauty the old organ was ! Its sober pipes 
had blossomed out in flags even to the roof. Through the civil 
war it was the custom to drape the organ with flags, and so 
every flag on that morning called back to many minds the days 
when Dr. J. P. Thompson thundered against slavery and rallied 
the fainting city to new loyalty to the Union. 

On an occasion so august it was felt that every ministerial 
officer of our great national missionary societies, residing in 
New York or vicinity, ought to participate in the services. 
They were accordingly invited and accepted the invitation. 

The hymns were those sung forty-one years before at the 
dedication of the church. The words of the anthem were writ- 
ten for the occasion by the pastor, and the music by the organist 
of the church, Mr. Hawley. The sermon by the pastor was 
not so long as that of Professor Edwards A. Park at the dedi- 
cation of the church in 1859, which was two hours in length. 
The pastor gave an extended history covering sixty years, and 
did it in sixty-three minutes. 

The Bible School celebration at 3.30 in the afternoon had 
for its most striking feature the singing by members of the 
Bethany school. Under the able leadership of Mr. Hayden 
the school has become a choral society, and the musical 
programme furnished by the school at Christmas is one of the 
great features of the Bethany year. When it became known 
that the Bethany children were coming, a generous woman 
of the Tabernacle promptly placed at their disposal a number 
of Fifth Avenue omnibuses. The programme was carried out 
as printed. 

Notwithstanding the fulness of the afternoon there was a 
good attendance at Dr. Thomson's Bible class at five o'clock, 
and at seven the chapel was well filled when the Christian En- 
deavor celebration was opened by its president, Mr. Ellenwood. 

But it may be questioned whether the great meeting of the 
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The Sixtieth Anniversary 1 

day was not the Fellowship Meeting held in the auditorium 
at eight o'clock. The world is hungry for Christian unity, 
and every manifestation of it is greeted with enthusiasm and 
thanksgiving by the large number of Christians who are pray- 
ing for a better day. For the Tabernacle to have celebrated an 
anniversary without inviting any of her neighbors would have 
been an act contrary to the entire trend of her spiritual his- 
tory. The men who were invited were strong men, finely rep- 
resentative of the branches of the Christian church from which 
they came. Foremost in the list was Dr. Henry A. Stimson, 
former pastor of the Tabernacle, and now pastor of the Man- 
hattan Congregational Church on the West Side. He was 
followed by Dr. Marvin R. Vincent, professor in the Union 
Theological Seminary, a dear friend of Dr. Taylor, represent- 
ing the Presbyterian Church. Next came Dr. David H. Greer, 
rector of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, and the well 
known Baptist minister Dr. Edward Judson, of the Judson 
Memorial Church. The last speaker of the evening was Dr. 
J. M. Buckley, Methodist, editor of the New York Christian 
Advocate. 

After the great meetings of Sunday there was rest for a 
day. On Tuesday morning at 10.30, women of the church 
came together to listen to five historical papers in which were 
set forth the labors of the Society for Women's Work. On 
Tuesday evening the Denominational Meeting was held. In 
celebrating the history of the local church it was necessary to 
dwell upon the history of the denomination, and to forecast 
its career in the century to come. As a recognition of this 
larger fellowship, six Congregational ministers were asked to 
take part in the services: Rev. William T. Williams, pastor 
of the Welsh Church; Rev. William H. Kephart, of the North 
Congregational Church; Dr. F. B. Makepeace, of the Trinity 
Congregational Church, and the Rev. H. M. Brown, pastor of 
the Christ Congregational Church, all of New York. The 
theme of the evening was Congregationalism, past, present, and 
future. Dr. Amory H. Bradford, Montclair, spoke on " The 
Congregationalism of Yesterday." General O. O. Howard, 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

formerly a member of the Tabernacle, spoke on " The Congre- 
gationalism of To-day." Dr. Josiah Strong on " The Con- 
gregationalism of To-morrow." The addresses were highly 
appreciated by all present. 

All the meetings thus far outlined were full of inspiration, 
but the celebration reached its climax Wednesday evening in 
the Church Dinner. It was an evening never to be forgotten 
by any one who was present. Twenty tables were set, each 
accommodating ten persons. There were flowers and music 
and a bountiful repast, and much delightful conversation, but 
the feature of the occasion was the after-dinner speaking. It 
was all by members of the Tabernacle, all of them laymen. 
The celebration began with the reminiscences of laymen, and 
it was fitly closed by the prophecies of laymen. The speakers 
were ten in number. There were only two toasts to which 
they were asked to speak : " The Tabernacle of the Past " and 
" The Tabernacle of the Future." The first subject was as- 
signed to two trustees and three deacons : Messrs. Bliss, Wash- 
burn, Hubbard, Warner, and Houghton. The prophets were 
Messrs. Gaylord, Hayden, Simpson, Bates, and Hamlin. It 
would be impossible to say which were more inspiring, the his- 
torians, or the prophets who alternated with them. Even the 
historians became at times prophetic, and the prophets saw 
such visions and dreamed such dreams that it was impossible 
for any one to doubt that the future will be in every way as 
rich and glorious as the past. It was almost midnight when 
the voice of the last of the prophets died on the air, and the 
pastor rose to request that one stanza of " Blest be the tie 
that binds " be sung. Thrilled with joy and love the church 
instinctively burst into song. 

It was with prayer and benediction by the pastor that the 
celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Broadway Tab- 
ernacle was closed. 

This narrative would not be complete without a paragraph 
concerning the Church Exhibit. A church, like an individual, 
leaves evidences of its activity across the years, and it is in- 
spiring now and then for a church to gather up its achieve- 
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The Sixtieth Anniversary 

ments, to see so far as it is possible to see such things, just 
what it has accomplished. It was proposed, therefore, when 
first the idea of the celebration was mooted, to gather the photo- 
graphs of the ministers and officers of the church, the pam- 
phlets and books written and published by members of the 
church, and that on charts there be presented to the eye not 
only the men and women whom the church has contributed 
to religious work, but also the money which it has poured into 
the coffers of philanthropic and missionary enterprises. All 
that was planned was carried out. The exhibit was an un- 
qualified success. Paintings and engravings and photographs 
were brought together in numbers sufficient to cover large 
areas of the two sides of the parlors. Books and pamphlets 
and papers were collected sufficient in number to fill several 
large glass cases. Charts were prepared exhibiting the names 
of the church's most distinguished workmen in the vineyard 
of the Lord, and on other charts the whole story of its benevo- 
lences was shown in such a way as to catch the eye and thrill 
the heart. It is needless to say that the exhibit in every de- 
partment was far from complete. The committee worked with 
indefatigable industry, but many months of constant labor 
would have been necessary to ascertain all the facts and gather 
together all the material which might rightly claim a place 
in such an exhibition. The lists of workers who are or have 
been members of this church, though not complete, are sug- 
gestive. Here they are: 

MINISTERS. 

William Adamson, Elijah C. Baldwin, Walter M. Barrows, 
D.D., Hubbard Beebe, Allen Page Bissell, Joel Blackmer, 
Charles P. Blanchard, Professor Charles R. Bliss, S. Bourne, 
Professor Francis Brown, D.D., Amzi Camp, A. Huntington 
Clapp, D.D., L. Henry Cobb, D.D., Samuel Colcord, William 
Henry Colton, Julius L. Danner, David D. Davis, John P. De 
Merritt, Myron Samuel Dudley, Richard C. Dunn, Ephraem 
Menachem Epstein, David Fitch, Daniel W. Fox, Edward W. 
Gilman, D.D., Richard Gidman, Joseph F. Gaylord, Franklin 
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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

A. Gaylord, Luther Halsey Gulick, Sidney L. Gulick, Charles 
L. Hall, Joshua B. Hall, R. L. Hall, Chauncey L. Hamlin, 
Henry R. Harris, Joseph Harris, Robert W. Haskins, L. 
Smith Hobart, Joseph D. Hull, George Jackson, Edwin John- 
son, D.D., John Kershaw, Daniel Lancaster, Philo F. Leaven, 
William E. Locke, John D. Long, Payson W. Lyman, Ben- 
jamin N. Martin, D.D., Alexander S. McLeod, William C 
Merritt, Edward C. Merriam, Benjamin F. Millerd, Ray 
Palmer, D.D., William J. Peck, Absalom Peters, D.D., Edward 
N. Pomeroy, Theodore S. Pond, Charles H. Pratt, Edward 
Pratt, Edward A. Rand, Adoniram Judson Rich, Frank Rus- 
sell, D.D., John A. Seymour, R. Bayard Snowden, John C. 
Taylor, William H. Teel, Stefano L. Testa, William H. 
Thomas, James B. Thompson, Thomas G. Thurston, George 
P. Tindall, Henry B. Underwood, Rufus S. Underwood, 
Charles Van Norden, James H. Warren, Charles C. Watson, 
Mosely H. Williams, William Henry Wolcott. 

FOREIGN MISSIONARIES. 

Dr. Nahabed Abdalian, Dr. Charles L. Bliss, Dr. Burt N. 
Bridgman, Miss Caroline E. Bush, Mrs. Margaret Chandler, 
Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, Rev. Sidney L. Gulick, Deacon 
Henry C. Hall, Mr. George Lawrence, Rev. William Edwin 
Locke, Rev. Theodore S. Pond, Rev. Barnabas Root, Dr. Ida 
Salmon Stapleton, Deacon Matthew Starr, Rev. James B. 
Thompson. 

WORKERS IN CITY AND HOME MISSIONS. 

William F. Barnard, Rev. Amzi Camp, Rev. Samuel Col- 
cord, Rev. Ephraem Menachem Epstein, Rev. Charles L. Hall, 
Mrs. Emma Calhoun Hall, Rev. George Jackson, Rev. Ed- 
ward Pratt, Rev. John A. Seymour. 

OFFICERS OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES. 

Rev. Milton Badger, D.D.,* Secretary of the American 
Home Missionary Society; Rev. Walter M. Barrows, D.D., 

* Member of the society though not of the church. 
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The Sixtieth Anniversary 

Secretary of the American Home Missionary Society; Rev. 
Charles P. Bush, D.D.,* District Secretary of the American 
Board ; Norman A. Calkins, LL.D., Treasurer of the Congre- 
gational Union; Rev. A. H. Clapp, D.D., Secretary of the 
American Home Missionary Society and Treasurer of the 
Congregational Home Missionary Society; Rev. L. H. Cobb, 
D.D., Secretary of the Congregational Church Building So- 
ciety ; Rev. Edward W. Gilman, D.D., Secretary of the Ameri- 
can Bible Society; General O. O. Howard, President of the 
Congregational Home Missionary Society; Miss Delia E. 
Emerson, Secretary of Woman's Bureau, American Missionary 
Association; Deacon Henry W. Hubbard, Treasurer of the 
American Missionary Association; Rev. Ray Palmer, D.D., 
Secretary of the Congregational Union ; Rev. Absalom Peters, 
D.D., Secretary of the Home Missionary Society ; Miss Ellen C. 
Parsons, Editor for the Presbyterian Women's Boards; Rev. 
Henry A. Stimson, President of the Congregational Church 
Building Society ; Rev. William M. Taylor, D.D., President of 
the American Missionary Association and of the Congrega- 
tional Union; Mr. Langdon S. Ward, Treasurer of the 
American Board. 

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF BENEVOLENT BOARDS AND 
INSTITUTIONS. 

Deacon Austin Abbott, Charles Abernethy, Mrs. Charles 
Abernethy, Rev. Samuel Colcord, Mrs. R. A. Dorman, George 
S. Edgell, William C. Gilman, Mrs. Hamilton S. Gordon, Mrs. 
Horace Green, A. S. Hatch, Deacon Samuel Holmes, General 
O. O. Howard, Mrs. Henry C. Houghton, Caleb C. Knevals, 
Deacon William C. Lambert, James T. Leavitt, Charles L. 
Mead, Francis A. Palmer, Thomas Ritter, Mrs. Marshall O. 
(Caroline D.) Roberts, Deacon William Henry Smith, Miss 
Lucy M. Spelman, Lucien C. Warner, John H. Washburn, 
William Ives Washburn. 

A synopsis of the benevolences of the church is given be- 

* Member of the society, though not of the church. 

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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



low. An itemized account of the first thirty years cannot be 
obtained. 



BENEVOLENCES OF THE BROADWAY TABERNACLE CHURCH, 1840-1900. 





Board. 


Missions. 


American Mis- 
sionary As- 


Church 
Building. 


Church Ex- 
















|26,o 3 o.i2 
33,403.0a 
43,187.17 


$18,767.25 
67,416.44 
50,760.82 


$5,994-54 
18,171.52 
22,670.66 


$5,417.52 
10,705.50 
10,490.04 


$2,398.49 
10,740.98 
14.303-32 




j8 1 tf 




Totals 


$IO2 ,02, 3I 


$136,944-51 


$46,836.72 


$26,613.06 


$27,442.79 





Education. 


Bethany. 


Deacons' 
Fund. 


Hospitals. 


Seamen. 


1846 1871 












1872-1880 


$3,805.44 
5,495-78 
5,808.90 


$35,406.82 
84,588.63 
49,512.21 


$18,955.29 
15,697.74 
9,121.05 


$466.51 
11,496.79 
10,077.29 


$4,627-77 
4,548.96 






Totals 


$.5,110.12 


$169,507.66 


$43,774-o8 


$22,040.59 


$10,582.99 





City Charities. 


Miscellaneous. 


Totals. 




1846-1871 


$10,610.93 
16,444.01 


$13,307.61 


$350,000.00 
161,487.85 
313,784.32 
265,02,. 44 


c! AeChTch, «'.09°.«93.6x 








Individual Gifts . - __ „ 
(partial list). '."^S-oo 




Totals 


$32,235-35 


$61,650.93 


$1,090,293.61 


Grand total, $2,099,218.61 





THE GIFTS OF A FEW MEN. 



Presbyterian Hospital 

Manhattan Church 

Berea College 

Yale Seminary 

Young Women's Christian Association. 
Woman's Hospital 



$2,000 
2,500 
3»o5o 
3.955 
4,555 
5,ooo 



The Sixtieth Anniversary 

Home for Aged Ministers' Families $15,000 

Stamford, Conn 20,000 

College in Ohio 25,000 

Young Men's Christian Association 35>8oo 

Eddytown, N. Y 70,000 

Western Colleges 100,000 

Bedford, N. Y 100,000 

Boys' Club, Fall River, Mass 100,000 

Oberlin College 132,065 

New York City 150,000 

Francis Asbury Palmer Fund 240,000 

Total $1,008,925 

In the book exhibit were books and pamphlets by William 
F. Barnard, Clarence W. Bowen, Rev. L. H. Cobb, Rev. Sam- 
uel Colcord, Martin H. Early, Augustus Gaylord, President 
Daniel Coit Gilman, Sidney H. Gulick, David Hale, Rev. 
Charles L. Hall, Mrs. Henry Clay Hall, Professor A. D. F. 
Hamlin, Chester Holcombe, Dr. Henry C. Houghton, General 
O. O. Howard, Mrs. Holloway, Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, 
Lewis S. Judd, Miss Ellen C. Parsons, Dr. William H. Porter, 
Dr. George T. Stevens, Rev. H. A. Stimson, Dr. W. L. Stow- 
ell, Rev. William M. Taylor, Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, Dr. 
William H. Thomson, Miss Hetta L. H. Ward, Miss Susan 
Hayes Ward, Dr. Lucien C. Warner, John H. Washburn, Mrs. 
John H. Washburn, William Ives Washburn. 

In the picture gallery the faces of the following men were 
to be seen, some of them in oil, some of them in crayon, 
some of them in steel engravings, and many of them in photo- 
graphs — of many of them there were pictures taken in dif- 
ferent periods in life: 

PASTORS. 

Rev. E. W. Andrews, Rev. J. P. Thompson, D.D., Rev. W. 
M. Taylor, D.D., Rev. H. A. Stimson, D.D., Rev. C. E. Jef- 
ferson, D.D. 

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History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 
deacons. 

Henry Whittlesey, Samuel Holmes, Israel Minor, H. C. 
Hall, William H. Smith, W. G. Lambert, Dr. William H. 
Thomson, Austin Abbott, Samuel Pitts, Thomas W. Whitte- 
more, John H. Washburn, H. W. Hubbard, Dr. H. C. Hough- 
ton, Charles Whittemore, Augustus Gaylord, Dr. L. C. War- 
ner, Charles L. Mead, R. A. Dorman. 



Charles Abernethy, Nathaniel Fisher, Cornelius N. Bliss, 
M. C. D. Borden, Caleb B. Knevals, Levi M. Bates, Joel E. 
Fisher, Irving R. Fisher, William Ives Washburn, Charles 
Stewart Smith. 

TREASURER. CLERK. 

William B. Holmes. E. F. Browning. 

MEMBERS OF CHURCH COMMITTEE. 

Seth W. Benedict, General O. O. Howard, Rev. A. H. 
Clapp, D.D., William Allen, David Hale. 

SEXTON. 

F. S. Boyd. 

To project and carry out an extensive and elaborate cele- 
bration requires much time and strength and labor, and the 
jubilee could never have been so successfully carried through 
had it not been for a host of willing and enthusiastic workers. 
The church owes a debt of gratitude not only to the mem- 
bers of the various committees, but also to many others, both 
men and women, who, though not members of a committee, 
carried out with alacrity and ability the plans which the com- 
mittee had suggested. 



i^trttetf) anntoersarp 
Celebration of tjje 

Jlroafctoap Cabernacle 
Cfmrc!) 

JSrti. €ijarf£ss <£. gPefferjson, pastor 



1840 




1900 



^anuarp 16 to ^anuarp 23 

X901 



Wednesday Evening 



JANUARY 16, 1901 



$emmi£ten«$ 



THE PASTOR PRESIDING 



The Old Tabernacle Deacon Chakles Whittemore 



Memories of Early Times Mb. William B. Holmes 



The Early Pastors Deacon Richard A. Dorman 



The Old Struggles and Victories 

Deacon John H. Washburn 



The Old Friends Deacon William H. Thomson 



Friday Evening 

JANUARY 18, 1901 



deception 



THE PASTOR AND HIS WIFE, 

THE TRUSTEES AND THEIR WIVES, AND 

THE DEACONS AND THEIR WIVES 

WILL RECEIVE 



Music by Orchestra 



Remarks 

Rev. "William J. Peck, for Non-Resident Members 
Mr. Charles Stewart Smith, ) for Former Members 
Mr. James Talcott, ) 

Rev. Frank E. Ramsdell, for the Churches in 

Manhattan 
Rev. J. B. McLeod, for the Churches in Brooklyn 



Refreshments 



Sunday Morning 

JANUARY 20, 1901 



#uMit Wmgfyip 



Organ Prelude 

Doxology Congregation Standing 

Invocation Rev. C. J. Ryder 

Anthem "All Thy works praise Thee, O Lord" Hawley 
Responsive Reading . . Rev. Washington Choate 

Hymn Congregation Standing 

Scripture ..... Rev. C. C. Ckeegan 

Prayer Rev. J. B. Clarke 

Response By the Choir 

Offering 

Anthem " How Beautiful Upon the Mountains " Day as 

Historical Sermon By the Pastor 

Hymn Congregation Standing 

Prayer and Benediction . . . Rev. A. P. Beard 
Organ Postlude 



Sunday Afternoon 

JANUARY 20, 1901 



2£>ifiie £c()0ol Criefcration 

Tabernacle and Bethany Schools Uniting 

V» 

MR. HARRIS H. HAYDEN, SUPT., PRESIDING 

-*» 

Hymn "When Morning Gilds the Skies" 

Scripture Reading . Rev. N. M. Pratt 

Hymn "Soldiers of the Cross" 

Prayer Mr. R. A. Dorman 

Hymn " O God Accept Our Hearts this Day " 

Historical Paper . . Mrs. Annie Fisher Strebeigh 

Hymn "Forward! Be Our "Watchword" 

Paper "Work with the Little People" 

Mrs. D. S. Pillsbury 

Solo . . . Mrs. Bessie Chittenden Richards 

Address Rev. F. B. Richards 

Hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" 

Introductions and Messages 

Hymn "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" 



Sunday Evening 

JANUARY 20, 1901 



§. $♦ £. C €♦ Meeting 
^» 

MR. J. R. ELLENWOOD, PRES., PRESIDING 

Hymn 

Devotional Exercises 

Greeting by the Pastor Rev. Charles E. Jefferson 

"Our Society" from 1893-95 

Mr. C. L. Thorne 
Miss Marie S. Poole 

Soprano Solo 

"Our Society" from 1896=97 

Mr. E. V. Bladen 
Mrs. O. Florence 



"Our Society" from 1898-1901 

Mr. W. J. Finch 
Mr. J. R. Ellenwood 

The Church and "Our Society" 

Deacon H. W. Hubbard 

Prayer Rev. George A. Gordon 

Mizpah All Uniting 



Sunday Evening 

JANUARY 20, 1901 



f ettoto£J>ip Meeting 



Organ Prelude 

Doxology 

Invocation 

Hymn 

Scripture 

Prayer . 

Anthem 



THE PABTOR PRESIDING 



Ret. Arthur J. Wyman 

Rev. George A. Gordon 

. Rev. L. Henry Cobb 

O Lord, Thou Art Great" Coombs 



Addresses 

Rev. Henry A. Stimson 
Rev. Marvin R Vincent 
Rev. David H. Greer 
Rev. Edward Judson 
Rev. J. M. Buckley 

Hymn 

Prayer and Benediction Rev. George N. Boardman 



Tuesday Morning 

JANUARY 22, 1901 



10.30 O'CLOCK 
IN THE CHURCH PARLOBB 



Meeting of 
€J>e £ocietp for 3#omen'£ &oth 

^« 

MRS. HAMILTON 8. GORDON, PRE8., PRESIDING 



The Home Missionary Society 

Mrs. William S. Seamanb 



The Foreign Missionary Society 

Miss Elizabeth R. Fisher 



The Helping Hand . Mrs. Hamilton S. Gordon 

The Sewing School Miss Mary S. Janes 

The Kindergarten . Mrs. Thomas A. Fair 

Letter from Miss Bush 

Read by Mrs. Edward W. Peet 



Tuesday Evening 

JANUARY 22, 1901 



Denominational Sheeting 

THE PASTOR PRESIDING 

Organ Prelude 

Doxology 

Invocation .... Rev. William T. Williams 

Hymn 

Scripture .... Rev. William H. Kephart 

Prayer . . . . . Rev. F. B. Makepeace 

Anthem 

Address "The Congregationalism of Yesterday" 

Rev. Amory H. Bradford 

Address "The Congregationalism of To-day" 

General O. 0. Howard 

Address "The Congregationalism of To-morrow" 

Rev. Josiah Strong 
Hymn 

Prayer and Benediction . Rev. Henry M. Brown 



Wednesday Evening 



JANUARY 23, 1901 



C&urcfj banquet 

THK PASTOK PRESIDING 

After- Dinner Speeches 

The Tabernacle of the Past 

Hon. Cornelius N. Bliss 
Mr. Henry W. Hubbard 
Dr. Luclen C. Warner 
Dr. Henry C. Houghton 
Mr. William Iyes Washburn 



The Tabernacle of the Future 

Mr. Irving Gaylord 
Mr. Harris H. Hayden 
Mr. Thomas S. Hope Simpson 
Col. William G. Bates 
Prof. A. D. F. Hamlin 



Cfmrci) €j$Mt 



#n Oponftap ants €u?$fcap 



JANUARY 21st and 22d 



FBOM 10 A.M. TO 10 P.M. 



^P HERE will be in the Church Parlors an 
Exhibit of historical charts, showing the 
benevolences of the Tabernacle, books 
written and published by members of 
the Church, and also photographs, en- 
gravings and paintings of the Pastors and 
Trustees and Deacons who have served the 
Church within the last sixty years. To this 
exhibit the general public is cordially invited. 



Committee^ 



General Committee 

PASTOR, CHAIRMAN 



Cornelius K Bliss 
Irving R. Fisher 
William Ives Washburn 
Dr. Lucien C. Warner 



Miss Ellen C. Parsons 



Dr. William H. Thomson 
George L. Leonard 
Mrs. Hamilton S. Gordon 
Mrs. Dr. E. W. Peet 



Church History 

George L. Leonard 
William J. Whittemore 
Miss Ellen C. Parsons 
Charles E. Whittemore 

Bible School Celebration 

Harris H. Hatden 

Wm. H. Rath 

Miss Ellen C. Parsons 

Invitations 

Dr. William L. Stowell 



Church Exhibit 

Mr. Leonard 

Mrs. Hamilton S. Gordon 

Mrs. E. W. Peet 

Miss Ellen C. Parsons 

Finance 

Hamilton S. Gordon 
Dr. Lucien C. Warner 
Nathaniel C. Fisher 

Music 

Harris H. Hatden 
Miss Lillee P. Bliss 

Decoration 

Miss Annd3 C. Benedict Mrs. Robert L. Maitland 

Mrs. R. C. Cook Miss Lucy M. Spellman 

Reception 

Dr. Edward D. Fisher Dr. Frank B. Carpenter 

Dr. A. L. Northrop Miss Isabel M. Taylor 

Robert L. Maitland Martin H. Early 

Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wheeler 

Banquet 

Dr. E. W. Peet Mrs. R. A. Dorman 

Rev. Samuel Colcord Mrs. William H. Thomson 

Manley A. Raymond Miss Anna C. Mellick 



Dr. Chas. E. Bruce 

Press 

Thomas A. Fair 



Carriages 

George B. Bates 

Printing 

W. R. Fearn 



Charles E. Whittemore 



// is a great responsibility for a church of Jesus Christ 

to have had the privilege of the ministry of 

two such men as Joseph P. Thompson 

and William M. Taylor. Will 

the life of this church and 

congregation be such as 

privileges like these 

demand ? 

T. S. H. 



Appendix 



A 

A Plan of Union Between Presbyterians and 
Congregationalists in the New Settlements, 
Adopted in 1801. 

The report of the Committee appointed to consider and digest a plan 
of government for the churches in the new settlements was taken up 
and considered; and, after mature deliberation on the same, approved 
as follows: 

Regulations adopted by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
Church in America and by the General Association of the State of Con- 
necticut (provided said Association agree to them) with a view to pre- 
vent alienation and promote union and harmony in those new settlements 
which are composed of inhabitants from these bodies. 

First. — It is strictly enjoined on all their missionaries to the new 
settlements to endeavor, by all proper means, to promote mutual for- 
bearance and accommodation between those inhabitants of the new 
settlements who hold the Presbyterian and those who hold the Congre- 
gational form of church government. 

Second. — If in the new settlements any church of the Congregational 
order shall settle a minister of the Presbyterian order, that church may, 
if they choose, still conduct their discipline according to Congregational 
principles, settling their difficulties among themselves, or by a council 
mutually agreed upon for that purpose. But if any difficulty shall exist 
between the minister and the church, or any member of it, it shall be 
referred to the Presbytery to which the minister shall belong, provided 
both parties agree to it: if not, to a council consisting of an equal 
number of Presbyterians and Congregationalists agreed upon by both 
parties. , 

Third. — If a Presbyterian church shall settle a minister of Congre- 
gational principles, that church may still conduct their discipline accord- 
ing to Presbyterian principles, excepting that if a difficulty arise between 
him and his church, or any member of it, the cause shall be tried by the 
Association to which the said minister shall belong, provided both parties 
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agree to it; otherwise by a council, one-half Congregationalists, and 
the other half Presbyterians, mutually agreed upon by the parties. 

Fourth. — If any congregation consist partly of those who hold the 
Congregational form of discipline, and partly of those who hold the 
Presbyterian form, we recommend to both parties that this be no ob- 
struction to their uniting in one church and settling a minister, and 
that in this case the church choose a standing Committee from the com- 
municants of said church, whose business it shall be to call to account 
every member of the church who shall conduct himself inconsistently 
with the laws of Christianity, and to give judgment on such conduct, 
and if the person condemned by their judgment be a Presbyterian he 
shall have liberty to appeal to the Presbytery, if a Congregationalist he 
shall have liberty to appeal to the body of the male communicants of 
the church ; in the former case the determination of the Presbytery shall 
be final, unless the church consent to a further appeal to the Synod, or 
to the General Assembly, and, in the latter case, if the party condemned 
shall wish for a trial by a mutual council, the cause shall be referred 
to such Council. And, provided the said standing Committee of any 
church shall depute one of themselves to attend the Presbytery, he may 
have the same right to sit and act in the Presbytery as a ruling elder of 
the Presbyterian Church. — From the Assembly's Digest. 



Broadway Tabernacle Church. — Principles and Rules 
Adopted March 13, 1836. 

We whose names are hereto subscribed agree to form ourselves into 
the Sixth Free Church by the name of the Broadway Tabernacle, and 
to adopt, in the government and discipline of the same, the following 
principles : 

1. We hold that the Lord Jesus Christ is supreme head and lawgiver 
of the Church. 

2. That the Bible is the supreme and only binding code of laws for 
the government of the Church, and that in all matters of government 
and discipline the Church is bound to follow gospel rules. 

3. That each congregation of Christians, meeting in one place and 
united by a solemn covenant, is a complete Church, having no superior 
but the Lord Jesus Christ, subject to no authority but his, and from 
him deriving the right to choose its own pastor and church officers and 
to discipline its own members. 

4. That between churches so constituted, as also between all ministers, 
there is a perfect equality; but that mutual friendship and communion' 
should subsist between them, leading them to seek each other's counsel 
and advice or rebuke, whenever needed. 

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5. That such church, being made by the Lord Jesus Christ the sole 
depository of all ecclesiastical power, ecclesiastical bodies, distinct from 
the church, by whatever name they may be called, are only advisory, and 
have no right to reverse or annul the decisions of a particular church. 

6. That the ministry is of divine origin, intended for the sanctifkation 
of believers, for the conversion of sinners, and the reproof of the wicked, 
and to continue to the end of the world. 

7. That deacons were appointed in the primitive church for the as- 
sistance of the ministry and the care of the temporal concerns of the 
church. 

8. That every individual church should be supplied with pastors and 
deacons according to the pattern of the primitive church. 

9. That the choice of pastors and deacons should be made by the whole 
church, and that they should be set apart to the office by prayer and the 
laying on of hands. 

10. That the admission of members to the communion should be the 
act of the church at large, and that the Lord Jesus Christ has laid upon 
the church the duty of watching over its own members and of admin- 
istering discipline as an important exercise of Christian graces and a 
means of sanctifkation. 

11. That in all cases of offence, either against individual members or 
the church at large, discipline should proceed upon the rule laid down 
in the 18th chapter of Matthew, verses 16-18. 

Rules. 

In conformity to these principles we adopt the following rules for the 
government and discipline of this church: 

1. All elections shall be made by the major vote of members of the 
church in good and regular standing. 

2. The pastoral relation between this church and its minister shall be 
constituted and dissolved in the mode usually adopted in Congregational 
churches. 

3. The number of deacons determined by church to be chosen an- 
nually, public notice given two weeks previously. Vacancies to be filled 
by public meeting, one week's notice. 

4. The minister and deacons shall together constitute a session. Dea- 
cons counsel as to spiritual interests, attend and sustain meetings of 
enquiry, instruction, conference, prayer; visit sick and attend to all 
temporalities of the church. They appoint treasurer and clerk from 
their own body. Treasurer keep account of receipts and disbursements 
and report monthly to session, quarterly to church. Clerk keep a record 
of all meetings of the session and church, and to give and sign the cer- 
tificates of church membership and dismissions. 

5. Pastor preside in meetings of church and session, and have cast- 
ing vote. 

6. Examination of all candidates for admission to church in open 

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meeting, and unanimous vote of members present, male and female, 
requisite for admission of any member. 

7. No member admitted without oral or written relation of religious 
experience. 

8. Candidates propounded one week previous to admission. 

9. In cases of discipline the church may refer the duty of collecting 
evidence and preparing case to the session. The decision of majority 
of members, male and female, final. Counsel of other churches may be 
sought, but the power of censure rests in the church. 

10. Pastor may convene, by public notice, session or church. If a 
majority of church or session desire a meeting, it shall be duty of pastor 
or, in his absence, of session to call such a meeting. 

11. All meetings open and close with prayer. 

12. Annual meeting, first Monday in June. 

The Evangelist, March 19, 1836. 



c 

Articles of Christian Faith and Church Government 
Adopted by the Members of the Broad- 
way Tabernacle Church. 

We, the subscribers, having agreed to unite in the establishment of a 
new Congregational Church in New York, by the name of The Broad- 
way Tabernacle Church, think it proper to make a declaration of that 
Faith which is the bond of our ecclesiastical union, and which we shall 
expect to find in all those who shall hereafter participate in our religious 
privileges and communion. 

First. — We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament 
are the word of God, and the only perfect rule of Christian faith and 
practice. 

Second. — We profess our decided attachment to that system of the 
Christian religion which is distinguishingly denominated Evangelical; 
more particularly to those doctrines which, in a proper sense, are styled 
the Doctrines of Grace, viz. : " That there is one, and but one, living 
and true God, subsisting in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the 
Holy Ghost ; and that these Three are one God, the same in substance, 
equal in power and glory ; that God from all eternity, according to the 
counsel of His own will, and for His own glory, foreordained whatso- 
ever comes to pass; that God, in His most holy, wise, and powerful 
providence, preserves and governs all His creatures and all their actions ; 
that by the Fall all mankind lost communion with God, are under His 
wrath and curse and liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, 
and to the pains of hell forever; that God out of His mere good 
pleasure, from all eternity elected some to everlasting life, entered into 
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a covenant of grace, to deliver them from a state of sin and misery, and 
introduce them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer; that this Re- 
deemer is the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, who became 
man, and continues to be God and man in two distinct natures and one 
person forever ; that the effectual calling of sinners is the work of God's 
Spirit; that their justification is only for the sake of Christ's righteous- 
ness by faith." And we hereby covenant and engage, as fellow Christians 
of one faith, and partakers of the same hope and joy, to give up our- 
selves unto the Lord, for the observance of the ordinances of Christ 
together in the same society, and to unite together in one body for the 
public worship of God and the mutual edification one of another in the 
fellowship of the Lord Jesus; exhorting, reproving, comforting, and 
watching over each other, for mutual edification ; looking for that blessed 
hope and the glorious appearing of the great God, even our Saviour, 
Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us that He might redeem us from 
all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people zealous of good 
works. 

Form of Admission to the Church. 

You have presented yourselves in this public manner before God to 
dedicate yourselves to His service and to incorporate yourselves with 
His visible people. You are about to profess supreme love to Him, 
sincere contrition for all your sins, and faith unfeigned in the Lord 
Jesus Christ; to enter into a solemn covenant to receive the Father, 
Son, and Holy Ghost as they are offered in the Gospel, and to walk in 
all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. We trust 
you have well considered the nature of these professions and engage- 
ments. The transaction is solemn, and will be attended with eternal 
consequences. God and holy angels are witnesses. Your vows will be 
recorded in heaven, to be exhibited on your trial at the Last Day. Yet 
be not overwhelmed. In the name of Christ you may come boldly 
to the God of Grace, and provided only you have sincere desires to be 
His, may venture thus unalterably to commit yourselves, and trust in 
Him for strength to perform your vows. 

Attend now to the 

Covenant. 
In the presence of God, His holy angels, and this assembly, you do 
now solemnly dedicate yourselves to God the Father, as your chief 
good ; to the Son of God, as your Mediator and Head, humbly relying 
on Him as your Prophet, Priest, and King; and to the Holy Spirit, 
as your Sanctifier, Comforter, and Guide. To this one God, Father, 
Son, and Holy Ghost, you do heartily give up yourselves in an ever- 
lasting covenant to love and obey Him. Having subscribed the Articles 
of Faith and Government adopted by this Church, you promise to walk 
with us in conformity to them, in submission to all the orders of the 
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Gospel, and in attendance on all its ordinances, and that, by the aid of 
the Divine Spirit, you will adorn your profession by a holy and blame- 
less life. 

This you severally profess and engage. 

In consequence of these professions and promises, we affectionately 
receive you as members of this Church, and in the name of Christ 
declare you entitled to all its visible privileges. We welcome you to 
this fellowship with us in the blessings of the Gospel, and on our part 
engage to watch over you, and seek your edification, as long as you 
shall continue among us. Should you have occasion to remove, it will 
be your duty to seek and ours to grant a recommendation to another 
Church; for hereafter you can never withdraw from the watch and 
communion of the saints without a breach of covenant. 

And now, beloved in the Lord, let it be impressed on your minds that 
you have entered into solemn circumstances from which you can never 
escape. Wherever you go, these vows will be upon you. They will 
follow you to the bar of God, and in whatever world you may be fixed 
will abide upon you to eternity. You can never again be as you have 
been. You have unalterably committed yourselves, and henceforth you 
must be the servants of God. Hereafter the eyes of the world will be 
upon you ; and as you demean yourselves, so religion will be honored 
or disgraced. If you walk worthy of your profession, you will be a 
credit and a comfort to us; but if it be otherwise, you will be to us a 
grief of heart and a vexation. And if there is a wo pronounced on 
him who offends one of Christ's little ones, wo, wo to the person who 
offends a whole Church! " But, beloved, we are persuaded better things 
of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak." 
May the Lord guide and preserve you till death, and at last receive you 
and us to that blessed world where our love and joy shall be forever 
perfect. Amen. 

For the Well Ordering of our Affairs, we Adopt the Following 
Declarations and Permanent Rules. 

i. The design of a Christian Church we understand to be the enjoy- 
ment of Christian ordinances and the maintenance of the worship of God. 

2. The permanent Officers of the Church shall be a Pastor and 
Deacons, who shall exercise their respective offices as directed in the 
Scriptures. 

3. The Officers for the year shall be a Clerk, who shall also be Treas- 
urer, and five brethren, who shall co-operate with the Pastor and 
Deacons in the more especial oversight of the interests of the Church. 
This united Committee shall especially provide for the supply of the 
pulpit in cases of emergency; they shall confer with persons who 
offer themselves for admission to the Church, enquiring into their char- 
acter and circumstances, and the reason they have for the hope that is 

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in them, and report to the Church the cases of all whom they may deem 
suitable candidates for admission. 

4. Officers permanent, and for the year, shall be elected by ballot and 
without any public nomination, unless the Church shall appoint a Com- 
mittee for that purpose. 

5. The Church will meet for prayer and conference every Monday 
evening. The Sacrament of the Supper will be administered on the 
first Sabbaths of January, March, May, July, September, and November, 
and the Monday evening meetings next preceding these Sabbaths shall 
be business meetings, at which any matter relating to the interests of 
the Church may be introduced, and the Monday evening preceding the 
first Sabbath in March shall be the annual meeting, at which the Com- 
mittee shall make a report of their proceedings, and new elections shall 
be made. 

6. Candidates for admission shall be reported to the Church at least 
two weeks and propounded to the congregation at least one week before 
the business meeting at which their cases are to be acted on by the 
Church. They shall become members by election and signing the articles 
of faith and covenant, and, those who have not done so before, by 
making a public profession. 

7. All questions shall be determined by the votes of the male mem- 
bers, of lawful age, present on the occasion. 

8. The Confession of faith, Covenant, Form of admission, or Stand- 
ing Rules may not be altered, except by a vote of two-thirds at an 
annual meeting, such alteration having been proposed in writing at a 
previous business meeting. 



D 

Preamble and Resolutions Concerning Charities, 

Adopted November, 1841. 

Whereas, The design of a Christian Church, as stated in the first 
declaration of this Church, is the enjoyment of Christian ordinances 
and the maintenance of the worship of God; and whereas, a Congre- 
gational Church possesses no power to compel a member to engage in 
any particular department of Christian labor; and whereas there are 
now societies to which Christians may unite themselves for the fur- 
therance of all works of Christian benevolence if they believe that their 
usefulness will be thereby promoted; and whereas we have in this 
Church members who are connected with almost all the great religious 
charitable societies, who may see to the interests of these societies ; and 
whereas there is a great diversity of opinion among us in reference to 
the various charitable movements of the day, but great harmony in 
regard to the peculiar and special design of the Church, which harmony 
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might be interrupted, as it has been in other churches, by any effort to 
co-operate in our organized capacity with other societies. Therefore, 

Resolved, That we deem it expedient in our action as a Church to 
confine ourselves to that design set forth in the following declarations, 
viz., The design of a Christian Church we understand to be the enjoy- 
ment of Christian ordinances and the maintenance of the worship 
of God. 

Resolved, That the pastor be and he is hereby requested to bring 
before the congregation the claims of such objects of Christian Charity 
as may seem to him best, either himself or by the employment of other 
persons. 



E 

Articles of Faith, and Covenant, Adopted February 
24, 1846 ; Also Standing Rules. 

The Broadway Tabernacle Church deeming it expedient to revise 
the " Articles of Faith " and " Covenant " adopted at the organization 
of said Church, and such revision being now complete, we, the mem- 
bers of said Church, do hereby adopt the following as the bond of 
ecclesiastical union, expecting to find the same faith in all who shall 
hereafter unite with us, viz. : 

Articles of Faith. 

We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are 
the Word of God, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice. 

And, in accordance with the teachings of Scripture, 

We believe in One God, subsisting in three persons — the Father, the 
Son, and the Holy Ghost; eternal, unchangeable, and omnipresent; 
infinite in power, wisdom, and holiness; the Creator and Preserver of 
all things ; whose purposes and providence extend to all events ; and 
who exercises a righteous moral government over all his intelligent 
creatures : 

We believe that man was originally holy; that our first parents dis- 
obeyed the command of God; and that, in consequence of their apos- 
tacy, all their descendants do also transgress his Law, and come under 
its just condemnation: 

We believe that God has provided a way of salvation for all man- 
kind; that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, having taken upon 
himself our nature, has, by his voluntary sufferings and death, made 
an atonement for sin; and that everyone who, with repentance for sin, 
believes in Christ, will be pardoned, justified, and saved through that 
faith alone: 

We believe that while salvation is thus freely offered to all men, none 
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do truly repent and believe in Christ, but those who, according to the 
sovereign grace and eternal purpose of God, are renewed and sanctified 
by his Holy Spirit in obeying the Gospel ; and that none who are thus 
renewed and chosen to eternal life will be permitted so to fall away as 
finally to perish : 

We believe that there will be a resurrection of all the dead ; and that 
God will hereafter judge all men and award to them eternal happiness 
or eternal misery. 

Covenant. 

We covenant and engage as fellow Christians of one faith, and par- 
takers of the same hope and joy, to give up ourselves unto the Lord 
for the observance of the ordinances of Christ together in the same 
society; and to unite together in one body for the public worship of 
God and the mutual edification one of another in the fellowship of the 
Lord Jesus ; exhorting, reproving, comforting, and watching over each 
other for mutual edification; looking for that blessed hope and the 
glorious appearing of the great God, even our Saviour Jesus Christ, 
who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity 
and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. 

Thus, also, we the subscribers, members of said Church at the time 
of the adoption of the foregoing, but who have never before subscribed 
its Articles and Covenant; and we the subscribers who have been 
elected as members of said Church since the adoption of these revised 
Articles and Covenant, do each of us solemnly declare our belief, and 
consent to the same, promising to walk in conformity thereto and to 
the government of said Church. 

Standing Rules. 

I. A Christian Church we understand properly to be, and we accord- 
ingly declare this Church to be, an association of professed believers 
in Christ for mutual watchfulness, for the enjoyment of Christian or- 
dinances, and the maintenance of the worship of God. 

II. The permanent officers of this Church shall be a Pastor and Dea- 
cons. The officers for the year shall be a Clerk and five brethren who, 
with the Pastor and Deacons, shall constitute a committee for the 
general oversight of the interests of the Church. This committee shall 
especially provide for the supply of the pulpit in cases of emergency, 
they shall confer with persons who offer themselves for admission, and 
report to the Church the cases of all whom they deem suitable can- 
didates. They may also transfer a prayer meeting to another evening 
of the same week. 

III. Officers, permanent and for the year, shall be elected by ballot, 
and without any public nomination, unless the Church shall appoint a 
committee for that purpose. 

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IV. The Church will meet for prayer and conference on Tuesday 
evening of each week; except that the first Monday evening of each 
month shall be substituted for Tuesday evening on the weeks of its 
occurrence. The Sacrament of the Supper will be administered on the 
first Sabbath of January, March, May, July, September, and November ; 
and the prayer meetings next preceding these Sabbaths shall be also 
business meetings, at which any matter relating to the interests of the 
Church may be introduced ; and the meeting preceding the first Sabbath 
in March shall be the annual meeting, at which the Committee shall 
make a report of their proceedings, and new elections shall be made. 
The Clerk shall call special meetings for business by causing a notice 
to be read from the pulpit on the Sabbath, upon the requisition of any 
ten brethren, presented to him in writing. 

V. Members will be admitted upon regular business meetings only. 
Candidates shall be reported to the Church at least two weeks, and 
propounded to the congregation at least one week, before the business 
meeting at which their cases are to be acted on. They shall become 
members by election, and signing the articles of faith and covenant, 
and (those who have not done so before) by making a public profession. 

VI. It is expected that members on removing will ask for letters of 
dismission and recommendation. Requests for such letters may be 
announced at the weekly prayer meeting or lecture ; and if, at the end 
of one week, no objection has been made to the Clerk, he shall issue 
the customary certificate. 

VII. All questions shall be determined by a majority of the male 
members present on the occasion; except that the articles of faith, 
covenant, form of admission, or standing rules may not be altered but 
by a vote of two-thirds at an annual meeting, such alteration having 
been proposed in writing at a previous business meeting. 



F 

Extract from the Resolutions Adopted by the 
Church May 13, 1851, and April 26, 1853. 

" The names of members who have been absent for one year, of 
whose residence or spiritual condition the Church cannot, after proper 
effort, obtain information, shall be entered upon a separate list to be 
kept by the Clerk, and to be called the ' Absentee List.' 

" The names upon this list shall be publicly read three times during 
the year, at each alternate Preparatory Lecture, and the list shall be 
reviewed at the Annual Meeting of the Church, or at such other time 
as the Church shall designate. 

" At the end of one year from the time the name of any member is 
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placed upon this list, if the Church has been unable to obtain informa- 
tion of that member, it shall become the duty of the Church to withdraw 
its watch and care over such member, thus excluding him or her from 
its fellowship for neglect of ordinance or breach of covenant, until such 
time as he or she may appear before the Church and give satisfactory 
reasons for his or her absence and delinquency." 



Conditions of Membership in the Broadway Taber- 
nacle Society, Adopted March 2, 1855. 

First. — Resolved, That payment of pew-rent, or pew-tax, or regular 
contributions to the boxes upon the Sabbath, shall be considered the 
usual and customary mode of contributing to the support of this Society. 

Second. — Resolved, That any person intending to contribute to the 
support of this Society through the contribution boxes upon the Sab- 
bath, as specified in the first resolution, and for the purpose of qualifying 
himself to vote at any election held in this Society, shall, in order to 
be judged a regular contributor, make, from time to time when in at- 
tendance on Divine Worship in this Society, such contribution as shall 
in the aggregate each year meet the approval of his own judgment, but 
every such contribution should be accompanied with the name of the 
contributor, and must, if doubted, be acknowledged by a certificate of 
the Clerk of the Society and an entry on his register; or it must, if 
doubted, be proven at the time of election by evidence equally satis- 
factory to the judges or inspectors of such election; and without such 
certificate of the Clerk, or evidence equally satisfactory to the judges 
or inspectors of election, no person shall be deemed as having con- 
tributed to the support of this Society by gifts received in contribution 
boxes. 

Third. — Resolved, That any person desiring to become a member of 
this Society, by reason of his contributions to the boxes, shall notify 
the Clerk of the Board of Trustees, in writing, of such intention, stating 
his name and residence, and if the Trustees shall, within four weeks 
from such notice to the Clerk, decline to receive such applicant, then 
his contribution shall cease its aforesaid effect, and notice shall be given 
him by the Clerk personally or left at the place of residence so specified. 
And all applications so rejected shall be laid before the Society at its 
first meeting thereafter, and if a majority of the members then present 
shall vote to confirm the action of the Trustees, then such rejection 
shall be confirmed. 

Fourth. — Resolved, That the usages and customs of the Society in the 
matter of such contributions be established and ordained according to 
the above resolutions, and not otherwise. 

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Fifth. — Resolved, That the Secretary of the Board of Trustees be 
required to keep a register of the members of this Society, according to 
the statute, and that a copy of said register be left in the office of the 
Sexton for the inspection of members. 

Sixth. — Resolved, That every male of lawful age shall be entitled to 
vote who shall have been a stated attendant on Divine Worship in this 
congregation for at least one year previous to the election, and who 
shall have contributed to the support of this Society, according to the 
usages and customs thereof as established and ordained by the afore- 
said resolutions, and not otherwise. 

Seventh. — Resolved, That in connection with the regular legal notice 
of the Annual Meeting of the Society, the aforesaid resolutions, or a 
statement containing the substance thereof, be read, and that all persons 
who desire to become members of the Society be requested to signify 
their intention to the Clerk prior to the Annual Meeting. 

Eighth. — Resolved, That the Clerk of this Society shall be present 
at its elections, in order by his register to test the qualifications of 
electors if questioned. 

Ninth. — Resolved, That two Deacons (or if there be none present, 
then two members of the Society, to be nominated by a majority of the 
members present) must preside at the elections. 

Tenth. — Resolved, That the Inspectors of Election, as prescribed by 
statute, shall preside in front of the audience with a box for the recep- 
tion of ballots, and as each ballot is offered the name of the individual 
offering such ballot shall be called aloud, and if in the judgment of the 
Inspectors he is a duly qualified member his ballot shall be received. 

Eleventh. — Resolved, That no person shall be allowed to vote, by 
ballot or otherwise, at any meeting of the Society who does not possess 
the statute qualifications, and who has not contributed to the support 
of this Society in the manner and form ordained by the foregoing 
resolutions. 



H 

Among Joseph P. Thompson's published works 
are the following: 

Abraham Lincoln : His Life and Its Lessons. Pp. 38. New York : 1865. 

Address on the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Abbott Bridgman. 
Pp. 11. New York: 1871. 

America as Seen from Europe: A Look Homeward Across the Sea: 
Thanksgiving Address. Pp. 27. Bremen: 1874. 

American Comments on European Questions, International and Relig- 
ious. 8vo. Boston: 1854. 

The Believer's Refuge. 1857. 

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Broadway Tabernacle Church: Its History and Work, with the Docu- 
ments Relating to the Resignation of its Pastor. Pp. 51. New 
York: 1871. 

Bryant Gray. 1863. 

Christ, the Church, and the Creed : Letter to Professor Dr. A. Weber. 
Pp. 7. Berlin: 1877. 

The Christian Graces : A Series of Lectures on 2 Peter i. 5-12. i6mo. 
New York : 1859. 

Christianity and Emancipation. Pp. 86. New York: 1863. 

Church and State in the United States, with an Appendix on the Ger- 
man Population. i6mo. Boston: 1873. 

The College as a Religious Institution: Address before the Western 
College Society. Pp. 34. New York: 1859. 

Commemorative Discourse at a Memorial Service for 300,000 Union 
Soldiers. Pp. 28. New York: 1866. 

The Congregational Polity and a Biblical Theology: Discourse before 
the Congregational Board of Publication. Pp. 26. Boston: i860. 

Contest with Ultramontanism in Germany. Pp. 36. London : 1874. 

Duties of the Christian Citizen. Pp. 24. New York : 1848. 

The Early Witnesses; or, Piety and Preaching of the Middle Ages. 
24010. New York: 1857. 

Egypt, Past and Present. 1866. 

The Egyptian Doctrine of a Future State. Pp. 43. 

" Egyptology." — Smith's Bible Dictionary. 

An Essay toward Principles of International Law to Govern the Inter- 
course of Christian with Non-Christian Peoples. Pp. 20. Berlin: 
1876. 

The Faithful Preacher: Discourse Commemorative of the Late Dirck 
C. Lansing, D.D. Pp. 54. New York: 1857. 

Final Cause: A Critique of the Failure of Paley and the Fallacy of 
Hume. Pp. 22. London, n.d. 

The Fugitive Slave Law Tried by the Old and New Testament. Pp. 35- 
New York: 1850. 

Habitual Thankfulness: Discourse. Pp. 23. New Haven: 1840. 

Hints to Employers. 1847, 185 1. 

The Holy Comforter. 1866. 

Home Worship. 

How to Build a Nation : Discourse. 

Implements of the Stone Age in a Primitive Demarcation Between Man 
and Other Animals. Pp. 9. 1877. 

The Inalienable Possession. Pp. 48. New York : 1856. 

The Last Sabbath in the Broadway Tabernacle: Historical Discourse. 
Pp. 51. New York: 1857. 

Lectures to Young Men. (Second edition of " Young Men Admon- 
ished.") 

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Lewdness and Murder : Discourse Suggested by the Late Murder. Pp. 
24. New Haven: 1845. 

Love and Penalty ; or, Eternal Punishment Consistent with the Father- 
hood of God. i6mo. New York: i860. 

Life of Christ for the Young. 1875. 

Man in Genesis, and in Geology; or, The Biblical Account of Man's 
Creation Tested by Scientific Theories of his Origin and Antiquity. 
i2mo. New York: 1870. 

Manning and Germany. Pp. 8. Glasgow: 1874. 

Man's Completeness in Christ: Sermon at the Installation of Rev. 
William B. Clarke. Pp. 40. New Haven : 1863. 

Memoir of David Hale. 8vo. New York: 1850. 

Memoir of David Tappan Stoddard. i2mo. Boston: A. T. S. 

Memoir of the Late Timothy Dwight. i6mo. New Haven: 1844. 

The Moral Unity of the Human Race: Sermon at the Ordination of 
Luther Halsey Gulick, M.D. Pp. 71. New York: 1851. 

Paganized Ecclesiasticism, the Chief Antagonist of the Modern Mis- 
sionary: Address before the Society of Inquiry, Andover. Pp. 32. 
1854. 

La Paix Considered Comme Berceau de la Chevalerie. Pp.29. Geneve: 
1874. 

Paparchy and Nationality. Pp. 42. 1875. 

Peace Through Victory: Thanksgiving Sermon. Pp. 46. New York: 
1864. 

The Permanence of Christianity, in the Intention of its Founder: Ser- 
mon before the Foreign Missionary Society of New York and 
Brooklyn. Pp. 57. New York: 1865. 

Photographic Views of Egypt, Past and Present. i2mo. Glasgow : 1854. 

The President's Fast: Discourse upon our National Crimes and Follies. 
Pp. 26. New York: 1861. 

Revolution against Free Government not a Right, but a Crime: Ad- 
dress before the Union League Club. Pp. 46. New York: 1864. 

The Right and Necessity of Inflicting the Punishment of Death for 
Murder : Sermons. Pp. 54. New Haven : 1842. 

The Sergeant's Memorial. 1863. 

The same, abridged. 

Sermon at Dedication of Broadway Tabernacle. Pp. 26. New York: 
1859- 

Shall England Side with Russia? — Letter to the Committee of Peace 
Society. Pp. 4. Boston : 1876. 

Statement to the Evangelical Alliance in Behalf of the A. B. C. F. M. 
Pp. 4. Berlin: 1879. 

Stray Meditations. 1852. 

Teachings of the New Testament on Slavery. Pp. 52. New York : 1856. 

Test-hour of Popular Liberty and Republican Government. Pp. 30. 
New Haven: 1862. 

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Theatrical Amusements: Discourse on the Character and Influence of 

the Theatre. Pp. 40. New York : 1847. 
The Theocratic Principle ; or, Religion the Bond of the Republic : Ser- 
mon in Behalf of the American Home Missionary Society. Pp. 27. 

New York: 1868. 
The Theology of Christ from His Own Words. i2mo. New York: 

1872. 
The United States as a Nation : Lectures on the Centennial of American 

Independence. i2mo. Boston: 1877. 
The Uses of Affliction to the Ministers of Christ: Sermon. Pp. 16. 

New York: 1847. 
Vice Progressive: Sermon to Young Men. Pp. 24. New York: 1846. 
The Word of Life the Law of Missions: Sermon before the A. B. C. 

F. M. Pp. 31. Boston: 1867. 
The Workman: His False Friends and his True Friends. 
Young Men Admonished. (First edition of " Lectures to Young 

Men.") 1846. 
Contributions to the New Englander, North American Review, Bib- 

liotheca Sacra, Journal of the American Geological and Statistical 

Society, Kitto's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature. 



I 

Some Appreciations of Joseph P. Thompson. 

Extract from Resolutions adopted by the New York and Brooklyn 
Association in Conference with the Bedford Congregational Church, 
November 1, 1871, on motion of Rev. William I. Budington : 

" Resolved, That this Association acknowledges with grateful recog- 
nition his long continued and valuable services in the support and 
vindication of our Congregational Christianity in the days of its weak- 
ness and infancy here, and attributes much of its present extension and 
influence to his indefatigable labors in its behalf. 

" Resolved, secondly, That in the conscientious studies which have 
enlarged our Christian literature, in the particular labor which con- 
tributed to the support of our Nation's life in its great conflict, and in 
the earnest discussions which vindicated the cause of Freedom against 
Slavery in the past, Dr. Thompson bears among us a record and a 
remembrance honorable both to him and the cause of our Lord." 

Part of the minute put upon record of the Conference of the Congre- 
gational Churches of New York and Brooklyn and Vicinity, November 
9, 1871: 

" But the influence and usefulness of Dr. Thompson have not been 
limited to the duties of his pastorate. Through the public press and 
in public assemblies, by voice and pen, the churches of our faith and 

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order have felt and recognized his leadership. The Nation in its hour 
of extremest peril, the Christian soldiers who went forth from our 
homes, and from our sanctuaries, to the fatigues and perils of the con- 
flict have abundant reason to remember, and do gratefully recall, his 
words of cheer and courage, his unfailing sympathy and help, his per- 
sonal ministry among the sick and wounded, and that yet greater gift 
— which God required of him — in the bearing of that common burden 
in that dark and awful hour. 

" The Christian world has been his debtor for the learning and labor 
which he has brought to the interpretation and illustration of the Holy 
Scriptures, and to the practical enforcement of the truth of God. 

" But we in these churches and in this Conference make mention 
especially of the loss which we are suffering by his removal from our 
councils and from personal participation in our fellowship. For these 
many years we have been used to look to him as not only the Bishop 
of our Metropolitan Church, but as, also, and, therefore, by right of 
position, and by right of his singular gifts and abilities, our chief coun- 
sellor in matters concerning the welfare of the churches. During these 
years in which the church under his pastorate has grown to be mater 
et caput ecclesiarum in this metropolitan region, no face has been more 
familiar in our meetings than his. We have found in him a strong and 
able leader, a wise and faithful counsellor, a generous and sympathetic 
friend. We testify our sense of the debt we owe him for his fidelity 
to the great fact and principle, so vital to our polity, so essential to our 
Congregational order — the fellowship of the churches." 

Part of the minute adopted by the Congregational Club of New York, 
November 3, 1879: 

" Resolved, That we hold in deep respect the memory of our late 
brother as we recall his multifarious learning, his unceasing and pro- 
digious activity, and his intense passion to be of service to Christian 
learning, Christian liberty, and the spirituality of the Church of Christ. 

" Resolved, That the example he has set before us of a broad brother- 
hood with all who love the gospel of Jesus Christ merits our gratitude 
and imitation as members of this brotherhood of churches. 

" Resolved, That by the services which his sensitive and overmaster- 
ing patriotism impelled him to perform for his native country, not only 
while he lived here with us, but also after he found it his duty to reside 
on the Continent of Europe, he has deserved well, not only of our 
Christian Churches, but of the whole nation." 

Extract from commemorative address by the Rev. Dr. Henry W. 
Bellows, November 10, 1879, before the Union League Club, New 
York City : 

" It is not as a scholar, as a pastor, that the Union League Club is 
called to consider him; but as a citizen who has deserved well of his 
country, a patriot, and a man of honor and principle, with whom we 



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were associated in time of public danger. The two churches of which 
he was in turn pastor ; the periodicals to which he was an indefatigable 
contributor ; his peers in Egyptology, and his numerous personal friends 
will not fail to do him justice in bearing testimony to the value of his 
labors and the charm of his manly, wholesome disposition. But the 
part of his life and character of which the Union League Club was the 
nearest witness, and claims as largely its own, was the influential, 
brave, and eloquent share he took as a citizen and a Christian minister 
in the time of the great rebellion. What should we have done in crush- 
ing the rebellion if only hired and professional soldiers had been sent 
to meet it? We had to create a solemn sense of duty to the country, 
to persuade the women of the justice and seriousness of a cause that 
demanded their husbands, sons, and lovers, to hush the scruples of the 
peace societies, and to cheer the people in times of defeat and terrible 
delay. Be it remembered, our foe had made religion of her cause. 
Were we to go into a war which was made religious on one side without 
the support of our religious leaders on the other side — and that the 
side of Liberty, Emancipation, National Union, and Republican insti- 
tutions ? Everybody knows what the religious leaders of the North did. 
A few bravely led off, and were followed by the rest; and among the 
most stalwart and zealous of them was Joseph P. Thompson. Always 
an anti-slavery man, too near Dr. Bacon not to be courageous, too near 
Dr. Taylor of New Haven not to have a conscience exercised to dis- 
cern good and evil, too near President Woolsey not to know inter- 
national law and the duties of citizenship, he threw himself into the 
war with whole-souled conviction." 



7 

Publications by Dr. Taylor. 

Life Truths : A volume of sermons. Liverpool 1862 

The Miracles, Helps to Faith, not Hindrances. (Edinburgh) 1865 

The Lost Found, and the Wanderer Welcomed 1870 

Memoir of the Rev. Matthew Dickie. (Bristol.) 1872 

Prayer and Business 1874 

David, King of Israel 1878 

Elijah, the Prophet 1876 

The Ministry of the Word. (Yale Lectures.) 1876 

Songs in the Night 1877 

Peter, the Apostle 1877 

Daniel, the Beloved 1878 

Moses, the Lawgiver 1879 

The Gospel Miracles in their Relation to Christ and Christianity. 
(Princeton Lectures.) 1880 

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The Limitations of Life, and Other Sermons 

Death in the Sight of All the People 

Paul, the Missionary 

Contrary Winds, and Other Sermons 

Jesus at the Well 

,- John Knox : A Biography 

Joseph, the Prime Minister 

Parables of our Saviour Expounded and Illustrated 

Shut In 

The Scottish Pulpit, from the Reformation to the Present Day. 

(Yale Lectures.) 

Miracles of our Saviour Expounded 

The Christian in Society 

Ruth the Gleaner and Esther the Queen 

Good Character 

The Boy Jesus, and Other Sermons 

The Faithful Saying: To the Working Classes. Huyler's Cir 

Royal, Liverpool 

The Song of Salvation. (Liverpool. ) 1859 

Address on the Occasion of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of 

Seaman's Orphanage. (Liverpool.) 

What the Bible Says about Giving American Tract Society 

Seed Sowing American Tract Society 

The Christian Serving his Generation National Temperance Society 

Difficulties and Advantages of Bible Translation : Sermon before 

the American Bible Society 1877 

Address at a Complimentary Dinner given to Dr. Crichton and Dr. 

Graham by the Representatives of the Lancashire Presbytery. 
Sermon: Not Ashamed of the Gospel. American Home Missionary 

Society. 
The Relation of Home Missions to the Prosperity of the Nation and 

the Conversion of the World. American Home Missionary Society. 
Debtor and Creditor. Distributed to its Policy-holders by the Mutual 

Life Insurance Company. 
Is the Young Man Absalom Safe? Before the Young Men's Social and 

Benevolent Society, Fifth Avenue Church. 
Memorial to J. M. Manning, D.D. 
Memorial to Professor Lyman S. Atwater, D.D., LL.D. 



K 

Dr. Taylor's Resignation. 

" New York, 27 October, 1892. 

" To the members of the Church and Society assembling in the Broad- 
way Tabernacle, New York City: 

" My Dear People : — The leave of absence, so tenderly granted to 
me in my need by you, is now so nearly at an end that it becomes me 
to let you know what is the state of my health now, and what are my 
intentions as to the future. 

" By the blessing of God on the means which, at the suggestion of 
my skilful physician, have been used, I am now far better than, at one 
time, I ever expected to be. All through the summer I have been mak- 
ing steady progress toward health; not much when looked at from 
day to day, but quite marvellous when tested month by month, and, 
taken as a whole, giving sure promise, humanly speaking, of ultimate 
perfect restoration. 

" But experience tells me that the process of recovery must be slow. 
At the very best it will take months yet, perhaps even a year or more, 
even if nothing untoward should occur, before I reach the goal to 
which I am now so eagerly looking forward. And even if I do reach 
that ultimately, I am painfully conscious that I can never hope to be 
again the man that I have been. One cannot pass through such an 
illness as I have had without losing that which he can never regain, 
especially if his vocation be that of a preacher of the Gospel. For it 
leaves behind it the constant liability to a return, and the consciousness 
of that takes away from him that utter absence of concern for self on 
which the effectiveness of speech so largely depends. 

" In these circumstances I am compelled to face the question what 
my duty to the Church is, and, after long, anxious, prayerful, I may 
even add tearful, consideration I have reached the conclusion that, in 
justice to you, no less than in consideration for myself, and out of 
regard to the glory of the Master whom we are both seeking to serve, 
I ought to place in your hands the resignation of my pastoral charge. 

" I can never fully tell you what it has cost me to come to this de- 
cision. I loved to preach. Some of the happiest experiences of my 
life have been in the pulpit. I have marked with the deepest interest 
the growth and deepening and mellowing of Christian character in those 
who statedly waited on my ministry; and the thrill of joy that tingles 
through one's heart when he is instrumental in leading a soul to the 
Saviour has to be experienced to be known. It was a great happiness, 
too, to visit you from house to house, to grasp your hands in affec- 
tionate greeting, and to help you, as I might, with words of counsel 
and of cheer. Not only in regular visitation have I known your homes, 
I have been with you in your times of sickness and bereavement, and 
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by the fellowship of such seasons, we have been welded together in 
the closest affection ; while your kindness to me at all times, but espe- 
cially during the weeks when my illness was the most critical, will be 
remembered by me with gratitude, as long as memory lasts. My feel- 
ings, therefore, are all opposed to my taking the step which I have 
mentioned, but my judgment is fully convinced of its wisdom. 

" So, sadly and with undiminished affection for you all, among whom 
I have preached the Gospel of the Kingdom of God during twenty busy, 
happy and useful years, but with the concurrence of my nearest and 
dearest friends, with the approval of my own judgment and with what 
seems to me to be the guidance of the Spirit of God, I return into your 
hands the charge with which I was intrusted on the ninth of April, 1872. 
" Believe me 

" Yours faithfully, 

"Wm, M. Taylor." 



L 

Minute adopted by Broadway Tabernacle Church at a special meet- 
ing, November 2, 1892 : 

" With the deepest regret we receive and accept the resignation of 
our beloved pastor; and we would express our sense of our own per- 
sonal loss, while we sympathize with him in this trial which withdraws 
him from the active service to which his life has been devoted. 

" He came to us from a distant land, another denomination, and 
almost a stranger here, but the fellowship of Christian faith and Chris- 
tian service at once made him and his household at one with us by 
close and tender ties, and he has loyally led us in the administration of 
this church according to its own polity and discipline. Very deeply 
engraved in our hearts is the record of his ministrations in our pulpit, 
our social worship, and our homes. We shall never forget that he has 
taught us to understand the scripture ; he has explained to us its mean- 
ing; he has helped us to see the significance and importance of the 
Old Testament, and its relation to the New; and, above all, he has 
shown us in the clearest light the revelation of our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ, in the Sacred Word. And hereafter when in reading its 
pages we come upon one passage and another, and another, we shall 
constantly remember him. 

" This church, thus nourished by his ministry, has much more than 
doubled its members, its strength, and its benevolence. Many of his 
instructions from the pulpit have gone forth in other lands. During 
all these twenty years he has constantly inspired us with a growing 
enthusiasm for carrying out the last great precept of Christ to go into 
all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature; and he himself 
has led us and gone far in advance of us, in every effort in aid of Home 
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and Foreign Missions. In serving this church he has thus exerted a 
world-wide influence. 

" In all this he has, unconsciously to himself, perhaps, fulfilled the 
purpose which he expressed in coming to us ' to hide himself behind 
the Saviour,' and has taught us to listen as ' hearing a voice, but seeing 
no man.' 

" For him, we pray that God will long continue him in life, and 
bless him with strength, comfort and happiness, and relieve his be- 
loved household from all anxiety and solicitude. And for ourselves 
we trust that God will perpetuate in our hearts the lessons of vital 
faith we have received, and make this church bear such increasing fruit 
in the future as will be worthy of the planting and watering which have 
been the consecrated and self-sacrificing work of this long and happy 
pastorate." 

: M 

Admission of Members, Articles and 

Rules of the Church and Society. 

(From the Year Book for 1901) 

ADMISSION OF MEMBERS. 

CREED. 

As a church of Jesus Christ, associated in accordance with the teach- 
ings of the New Testament, for the public worship of God, for the 
observance of gospel sacraments and ordinances, for mutual edification 
and encouragement in the Christian life, and for the advancement of 
the Redeemer's kingdom, we declare our union in faith arid love with 
all who love our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Receiving the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the 
word of God, and the only infallible rule of religious faith and practice, 
we confess our faith in the one living and true God, revealed as the 
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; the Creator and Preserver of 
all things, whose purposes and providence extend to all events, and 
who exercises a righteous government over all His creatures. 

We believe in the universal sinfulness and ruin of our race, since 
" by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death 
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." 

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, having taken 
upon Himself our nature, has by His obedience, sufferings, and death 
provided a way of salvation for all mankind ; and that through faith in 
His name whosoever will may be saved. 

We believe that although salvation is offered freely to all, they only 
repent and believe in Christ who, in thus obeying the gospel, are re- 

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generated by the Holy Spirit; and that all who are thus regenerated 
are " kept by the power of God, through faith, unto salvation." 

We believe that there is a day appointed in which God will raise the 
dead and judge the world ; that the wicked shall " go away into ever- 
lasting punishment, and the righteous into life eternal." 

CONFESSION OF PERSONS RECEIVED UPON CONFESSION OF THEIR FAITH. 

Dearly beloved, you have come to confess Christ before men, and 
publicly to dedicate yourselves to God. You avow your personal sense 
of the love of God in the forgiveness of your sins, and you believe that 
the Holy Spirit has wrought in you that change of heart by which you 
are enabled to put your trust for salvation wholly in Christ and to 
enter upon a new life. Trusting that He who hears and answers prayer 
will uphold and strengthen you, you do give yourselves to the Lord Jesus 
Christ, to be His disciples, receiving Him as your only Priest and Pro- 
pitiation, your great Teacher, Lawgiver, and King ; you dedicate your- 
selves to God as the object of your highest love, and to His service as 
your highest joy. 

In this solemn consecration you do now join with us in the following 
confession: I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven 
and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was 
conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under 
Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; the third day He rose 
from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand 
of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the 
quick and the dead. 

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion 
of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and 
the life everlasting. Amen. 

[The following shall be omitted if none have been baptized.] 

You who in childhood were admitted by baptism to a place in the 
covenant of God, do now, for yourselves, assume its full obligations 
and privileges. 

[The following shall be omitted if all have been baptized.] 

You who have had no part by baptism among the people of God, 
do now accept the seal of the covenant. 

[Baptism shall here be administered to such as have not been baptized.] 

ADDRESS TO THOSE UNITING BY LETTER. 

Beloved friends, who have been recommended to our communion by 
the churches to which you have belonged, in the love of a common 
Master, we welcome you to our joys and our labors, trusting that you 
will both receive comfort and strength and impart the same to us. 

In uniting with this church you do all promise to obey the commands 
and walk with us in the ordinances of the gospel, to cherish the fellow- 
ship of this church to whose creed you have just listened, to attend and 
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COVENANT FOR ALL. 



according to your ability to contribute to the support of its worship, 
to aid in its labors, and as far as in you lies to promote its purity, peace 
and prosperity. Do you thus promise? 

We, then, the members of this church 

[Here all the members of the church will arise.] 
affectionately receive you into our communion and welcome you into 
this fellowship with us in the blessings of the gospel and the service 
of our divine Redeemer. We promise with God's help to walk with you 
in Christian love and tenderness, and to aid you in discharging the 
duties which you have this day assumed, by our sympathies, our coun- 
sels and our prayers. 

For this cause 

[Here all bow the head in prayer.] 
we make supplication unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that 
He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strength- 
ened with might by His Spirit in the inner man ; that Christ may dwell 
in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 
may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and 
length and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ which 
passeth knowledge. 

The Lord bless you and keep you ; the Lord make His face to shine 
upon you and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up His countenance 
upon you, and give you peace. 

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present 
you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to 
the only wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty, dominion and 
power, both now and forever. Amen. 

[Here the pastor in behalf of the church shall give to each the right hand of fellow- 
ship.] 

ARTICLES OF THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY. 
Soon after the organization of the society, October 2, 1840, as a 
religious corporation, the following articles were adopted both by the 
church and society, as the basis of union and co-operation : 

I. The congregation shall hold the property, and receive the income, 
and make all pecuniary engagements, appropriations and payments. 

II. In calling a pastor, the congregation and church will act as con- 
current bodies — a majority of each being necessary to constitute a call; 
the church nominating and the congregation confirming or rejecting the 
nomination. 

III. The committee of the church will provide for the supply of the 
pulpit when there is no settled pastor, making the necessary arrange- 
ments for singing, and, in general, for the ordinary celebration of re- 
ligious worship; and the congregation will liquidate all reasonable 
expenses thereby incurred. Provided, that if the congregation choose 

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to do so, they shall always have a right to make the committee a joint 
committee, by putting on it as many members of the congregation as 
have been elected from the church. 

PERMANENT RULES OF THE CHURCH. 

1. The permanent officers of this church shall be a pastor or pastors, 
and deacons. There shall also be elected a clerk, a treasurer, superin- 
tendents of the Sunday-schools of the church, and nine brethren, who, 
with the permanent officers, shall constitute a committee for the gen- 
eral oversight of the interests of the church. This committee shall 
provide for the supply of the pulpit in cases of emergency; they shall 
designate the objects of benevolence to be brought before the church 
for its contributions; they shall confer with persons who offer them- 
selves for admission, and report to the church at a service prior to 
that at which they are elected the names of all whom they deem suitable 
candidates. They may also transfer the regular prayer meeting to 
another evening of the same week. 

The clerk, treasurer, and superintendents of the Sunday-schools of 
the church shall be elected annually and hold office for one year from 
the annual meeting, or until their successors shall have been elected; 
the nine brethren to be elected as members of the committee shall be 
elected as follows : At the first election, three brethren shall be elected 
to serve for one year from the annual meeting, three brethren shall be 
elected to serve for two years from the annual meeting, and three 
brethren shall be elected to serve for three years from the annual meet- 
ing. At each annual meeting thereafter, three brethren shall be elected 
to serve for three years from such annual meeting. 

2. All officers of the church shall be elected by ballot, and without 
any public nomination, unless a committee shall be appointed for that 
purpose. If such committee be appointed, the name proposed by the 
officers and teachers of the Sunday-school for superintendent shall be 
received and considered by such nominating committee. Such nom- 
inating committee may be appointed at the same meeting, or at any 
regular Wednesday evening meeting for prayer and conference, held 
at least two weeks previous to any election. When a vacancy occurs 
in any office, the clerk shall notify the church of the same at the first 
business meeting thereafter; and the church shall designate a time 
for filling such vacancy, of which notice shall be given on the Sabbath 
preceding. 

3. The church shall meet for prayer and conference on Wednesday 
evening of each week. The Lord's Supper will be administered on the 
first Sabbaths of February, April, June, October, and December, and 
the prayer meetings next preceding these Sabbaths shall be also business 
meetings, at which any matter relating to the interests of the church 
may be introduced ; the annual meeting shall be held on the Wednes- 
day evening preceding the last Wednesday in January; at which the 

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committee and the treasurer of the church and of the deacons' fund 
shall present their reports, and the officers for the ensuing year shall 
be elected. 

Upon the requisition of ten brethren, in writing, the clerk shall call 
a special meeting for business, by causing a notice to be read from the 
pulpit on the Sabbath preceding such meeting. 

No business shall be transacted at any meeting other than the busi- 
ness meetings herein provided, except the consideration of requests to 
participate in ecclesiastical councils, and applications for contributions 
at the time for special objects of benevolence; which requests and 
contributions shall be in order at any meeting. 

4. Admission to membership shall be by the election of the church 
at a business meeting (at which candidates are expected to be present) 
and by publicly joining in the covenant at a communion service. 

5. Requests for letters of dismission may be announced at any of 
the services of the church; and if no objection is made to the clerk, 
he shall issue to the applicant the customary certificate, which shall be 
valid only one year from its date, at which time his or her relation to 
this church shall terminate, unless such certificate shall have been re- 
turned to the clerk. 

6. It shall be the duty of the committee to report to the church, from 
time to time, the names of those members who have removed from the 
city without requesting letters of dismission, and of those who are 
habitually absent from Sabbath services and the communion table of 
the church, for such action as may be deemed proper in the premises; 
it being understood that this rule does not supersede the responsibility 
of individuals to labor personally to recover such as may fall into error 
or sin, and, if need be, to bring their cases to the knowledge of the 
church. A supplemental roll, to be known as the " Absentee Roll," 
shall be kept, to which shall be transferred from time to time the names 
of those absent members whose residences are unknown or who are 
habitually absent from the services of the church for reasons unex- 
plained, and against whom the church does not feel prepared to pro- 
ceed by way of discipline; and as these are self-suspended members 
the church and its officers are relieved from the duty of active watch 
and care in respect to them. 

7. All questions shall be determined by a majority of the adult mem- 
bers present on the occasion; with this exception — that the articles of 
faith, covenant, form of admission, or permanent rules shall not be 
altered but by a vote of two-thirds at an annual meeting ; notice of the 
intention to propose alterations, and a statement of the substance of 
such alterations, having been submitted at a previous business meeting. 

RULES OF THE SOCIETY. 

I. The annual meeting of the society of the Broadway Tabernacle 

shall be held on the second Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in 

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November in each year for the purpose of hearing the report of the 
trustees, filling the yearly and other vacancies in the board of trustees, 
and generally for the transaction of such other business as may then 
be properly brought before the society. 

2. The board of trustees shall consist of six members, until other- 
wise directed by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the society 
present, and voting at an annual meeting; and two of these shall be 
elected annually for the term of three years from the first of December 
following. 

3. Any vacancy in the board of trustees arising from any cause, may 
be filled by the remaining trustees until the next annual meeting of the 
society, at which meeting the vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired 
term. 

4. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to keep a record of 
their proceedings, and to make a report to the society at its annual 
meeting. The board shall also cause a treasurer's report to be made 
annually to show the financial condition of the society, and submit an 
estimate of the sum which it may appear to them necessary to raise 
to defray the expenses of the society, other than the pastor's salary, 
for the ensuing year. 

5. At each election the inspectors of election shall preside in front 
of the audience with a box for the reception of ballots. 

6. The payment of pew-rent to the trustees shall be considered the 
only mode of contributing to the support of the society; and every 
person who hires from them a pew, or one or more sittings, shall be 
deemed to have thereby requested that his or her name be registered 
as a member of the society, and the clerk is hereby directed to enter such 
names upon the register accordingly. 

7. Any person who at any time ceases to be a stated attendant upon 
divine worship with this church and society, or whose pew-rent shall 
be twelve months in arrears,* shall be considered as having withdrawn 
from membership in the society, and shall not be entitled to vote. 
Neither shall any person be allowed to vote at any meeting of this 
society who does not possess the statute qualifications of an elector. 

8. Special meetings of the society may be called by the board of 
trustees ; also by the written request of fifteen members of the society. 
Public notice of such special meeting shall be given in the church, or 
other place of worship of this society, at least ten days before the 
meeting. 

These by-laws may be altered only at an annual meeting by a vote 
of two-thirds of the members of the society present and voting. Notice 
of the intention to propose alterations, and a statement in writing of 
such alterations, must be submitted to the society at a previous business 
meeting. 



Officers of the Church and Society 



Members of Church Committee 



David Hale 

Marcus Hurd 

Samuel C. Hills 

Leonard Crocker 

George Dryden 

James C. Cruikshank.. 

Munson Lockwood 

Richard Hale 

Stephen C. Gray 

Amzi Camp 

William R. Powell 

Charles Durf ee 

Aaron Q. Thompson . . 
Henry Whittlesey 

James Smith 

Seth W. Benedict 

Jeremiah C. Lanphier . 

A. W. Huntington 

William G. West 

William C. Gilman 

John Sloan 

Abel K. Thompson . . . 

D. S. Williams 

George Walker , 

W. W. Fessenden 

Cyrus S. Minor 

Isaac E. Smith 

Marcus Mitchell 

Edwin Johnson 

I. Walter Camp 

Thomas E. Smith 

Charles H. Waterbury . 

John Gray 

Asa Walker 



1840, 1 841, 1843 




[840, 1 84 1 




[840, 1 841 




1840-1842, 1844, 


1845 


1840, 1 84 1 




1842, 1845 




[842 




[842 




[842 




1843, 1845 




1843, 1852 




'843 




C843 




[844, 1846 




C844, 1848 




[844, 1846, 1858 




[844 




[845, 1848, 185 1 




[845, 1847, 1849, 


1854 


[846 




[846 




846, 1855, 1857, 


1858, 1865 


[847, 1849 




[847 




847, 1865, 1866, 


1868 


847, 1849, 1874 




848, 1855 




848, 1850, 1853 




[848, 1849 




[849 




850, 1852, i860 




[850, 1854 




850, 1856 




850 





History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

Matthew W. Starr 1851 

Amos G. Bartlett 1851 

Henry C. Conkling 1851 

Joseph E. Woodbridge 185 1 

T. L. Ensign 1852 

Alexander Anderson 1852, 1856, 1857 

Myron J. Frisbie 1852, 1859 

A.S.Bali 1853 

Thomas Ritter 1853 

Moses Cristy 1853 

Thomas Rutherford 1853 

George Andrews 1854 

Langdon S. Ward 1854 

Henry A. Halsey 1854, 1858 

James D. Smith 1854, 1858 

Alexander T. Henderson 1855 

Samuel Holmes 1855, 1857 

Henry C. Hall 1855, 1857, 1859 

William B. Holmes 1856 

Norman A. Calkins 1856 

Edward Pratt 1856 

David A. Hale 1857 

R. A. Dorman 1857, 1871, 1877, 1889, 1894 

Asa Parker 1858 

Charles S. Smith 1859, l86 3 

James H. Grovesteen 1859 

Wallace E. Caldwell 1859, i860, 1861 

Levi M. Bates i860, 1878 

Samuel P. Holmes i860 

Charles Bell 1861 

Jeremiah Reeve 1861 

Caleb B. Knevals 1861, 1868 

William H. Smith 1862 

William G. Lambert 1862 

Thomas W. Whittemore 1862, 1864 

Edmund L. Champlin 1862 

William H. Bridgeman 1863 

George H. White 1863 

Charles Abernethy 1863 

William Allen 1864, 1869, 1873, 1874 

William H. Thomson 1864 

Nathaniel Fisher 1864 

Edward B. Finch 1865 

James Talcott 1865, 1869 

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Officers of the Church and Society 



Charles Whittemore 

A. H. Clapp 

Francis B. Nicol 

John H. Washburn 

Thomas S. Berry 

Robert L. Hall 

Daniel C. Ripley 

William F. Barnard 

Thomas Lane 

Lafayette Ranney 

Morris Roberts, Jr 

Samuel Burnham 

William M. Chamberlain ... 

Frederick Link 

James T. Leavitt 

Chauncey P. Fitch 

Normandus W. Thayer 

Austin Abbott 

Cornelius N. Bliss 

Charles T. Rodgers 

George A. Chamberlain 

Joseph A. Shoudy 

Charles W. Cleveland 

Henry F. Hills 

Matthew C. D. Borden 

James H. Dunham 

Henry W. Hubbard 

L. Smith Hobart 

Leonard Hazeltine 

Philip VanVolkenburgh .... 

Lowell Lincoln 

Irving R. Fisher 

William D. Moore 

Henry Hayes 

Isaac S. Piatt 

Bradford K. Wiley 

Henry W. Carey 

Hamilton S. Gordon 

J. Howard Sweetser 

Edward D. Fisher 

Augustus Gaylord 

Lucien C. Warner 

John Lindley 

Moores M. White 

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6, 1872 



7> 1873 



1, 1875, 1900 
876, 1876, 1877 
870 

870, 1878 
870, 1 880-1 883, : 
871 
871 
872 
872 
872 
873 
873 
874 
874 

875, 1876, 1878 
875, 1886 
876 
876 
877 
877 



879 

, 1888, 1893, 1896 

881, 1900 

881 

881, 1886, 1893 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



George H. Clark 

Albert Bellamy 


[883 

[884 
[884 
[884 
[884, 
[885, 
[885, 
885, 
[886 
[886 
[887 
[887 
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[888 
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[890 
[890, 
[890 
[891 
[892 
[892 
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895 
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Charles L. Mead 








Charles E. Whittemore 

Ezra P. Hoyt 






















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Alfred D. F. Hamlin 




S. Charles Welsh 




Edward A. Newell 
































Isaac D. Blodgett 




William L. Stowell 




















Charles E. Mitchell ] 




Edward W. Peet ] 
















Thomas S. Hope Simpson ] 








Charles W. Robinson ] 




Reuben W. Ross 





Officers of the Church and Society 

Clerks of the Broadway Tabernacle Church 

Abel K. Thompson 1840-1842 

Albert W. Huntington 1843 

I. Walter Camp 1844 

Edward F. Tread well 1 845-1 846 

Henry M. Benedict 1846-1847 

William W. Fessenden 1847, 1848, 1849, 1851-1864 

James D. Smith 1850 

* Alexander Anderson 1857 

Leonard Hazeltine, Jr 1865-1870, 1872-1876 

Frederick E. Coffin 1871 

Edward F. Browning 1877-1879 

William Ives Washburn 1880-: " 

George L. Leonard 1900 

Treasurers of the Broadway Tabernacle Church 

Abel K. Thompson 1840-1842 

Albert W. Huntington 1843 

I. Walter Camp 1844 

Edward F. Treadwell 1845 

Henry M. Benedict 1846-1847 

William W. Fessenden 1847-1849; 1851-1864; 1867-1869 

James D. Smith 1850 

Alexander Anderson 1859 

Abel K. Thompson i860 

William B. Holmes 1861-1866 

John H. Washburn 1869-1878 

Joel E. Fisher 1879-1886 

Irving R. Fisher 1887-1894 

Irving C. Gaylord 1895 

Nathaniel C. Fisher 1896- 

Deacons of the Broadway Tabernacle Church 

Samuel Pitts 1840-1853 

John C. Cass 1840-1847 

f William G. Lambert 1840, 1862-1882 

Israel Minor 1840-1866 

Albert Woodruff 1841-1844 

Henry Whittlesey 1847-1879 

George Walker 1849-1859 

Matthew W. Starr 1853-1862 

* Served for a few months. f Resigned in 1840. 

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Austin Abbott 

William H. Thomson 

Samuel Holmes 

Henry C. Hall 

William H. Smith 

Thomas W. Whittemore . 

John H. Washburn 

Henry C. Houghton 

Henry W. Hubbard 

Augustus Gaylord 

Charles Whittemore 

Lucien C. Warner 

Charles L. Mead 

Richard A. Dorman 



859-1866, 1873-1896 
866- 
860-1867 
862-1873 
862-1892 
-1885 
878- 
878- 
879- 



899- 



840-1841 ; 1844-1849 
840-1841 
840-1842 
840-1845 
840-1843 
840-1843 
841-1844 
~ -1842 
. :-i852 
842-1850 
843-1848 



Trustees of the Broadway Tabernacle Society 

David Hale 

Alonzo Calkins 

John C. Cass 

William A. Coit 

Albert Woodruff 

F. S. Grant 

John P. Hull 

Stephen Van Dyke 

Samuel Pitts 

David S. Williams 

Horace Dresser 

Samuel C. Hills 

Elijah P. Woodruff 1845-1847 

William C. Gilman 1846-1849 

Lansing C. Moore 1847-1851 

Henry M. Benedict 1848-1849 

Aaron B. Heath 1849-1850 

James Smith 1849-1855 ; 1857-18 

Israel Minor 1849-1858 

Joseph W. Camp 1850-1852 

John Gray 1850-1877 

B. Blanco 1851-1854 

Albert W. Huntington 1852-1853 

David A. Hale 1852-1856 

William G. West 1853-1860 

Myron J. Frisbie 1854-1857 

Samuel Holmes 1855-1868 

Thomas Ritter 1856-1859 



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Officers of the Church and Society 



Lafayette Ranney 

Adon Smith 

Abner Bartlett 

Seth B. Hunt 

Caleb B. Knevals 

Levi M. Bates 

James D. Smith 

Alfrederick S. Hatch 

Charles Abernethy 

Nathaniel Fisher 

Cornelius N. Bliss 

Leonard Hazeltine ...... 

Matthew C. D. Borden.. 

Charles S. Smith 

Joel E. Fisher 

James H. Dunham 

Irving R. Fisher 

William Ives Washburn. 
Robert B. Fleming 



858-1861 

859-1862 

860-1863 

861-1862 

862-1899 

862-1877; 

863-1868 

868-1872 

868-1878 

868-1880 

872- 

877-1886 

877- 



894- 
899- 



1878-1889 



Sunday-School Superintendents 

Accurate records of early Superintendents not obtainable. 

Matthew W. Starr, 
Samuel Holmes, 
William H. Smith, 
Charles A. Bell, 

Caleb B. Knevals 

John Lindley 

Edward P. Lyon 

Richard A. Dorman 

* Herbert G. Thomson 

fRufus Adams 

{Irving C. Gaylord 

Irving C. Gaylord 

Harris H. Hayden 



889-1892 
893-1895 
893, 1894 
895 



Sextons of the Church 

Missing dates not obtainable from Records. 

John S. Savery 

W. H. Snow 

Walter Reid 

Fredericks Boyd 

W. R. Fearn 



.1843- 
.1846-1853 



Note. 

In the following Chronological List of Members, the 
names of those uniting by letter are printed in Roman, 
those uniting on confession of faith in Italics. The second 
date applies to the termination of membership whether by- 
death, dismission, or discipline. In a few instances the 
Church records, while indicating the death of a member, 
do not give the exact date. These have been so stated in 
the list. The names after marriages of women who united 
under their maiden names, are given in parenthesis after 
the latter. 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

i. David Hale Sept. 3, 1840 Jan. 21, 1849 

2. Lucy S. Hale (Mrs.) " " " Oct. 28, 1852 

3. Lydia Hale (Mrs.) " " " Dec. 5, 1848 

4. Richard Hale " " " Mch. 27, 1846 

5. Samuel Pitts " " " Aug. 17, 1853 

6. Rhoda P. Pitts (Mrs.) " " ' Aug. 17, 1853 

7. Marcus Hurd " " " Mch. 24, 1847 

8. Fanny Hurd (Mrs.) " " " Feb. 7. 1849 

9. Abel K. Thompson " " " Mch. ii, 1881 

10. Israel Minor " " ' Jan. 21, 1859 

11. Charlotte L. Minor (Mrs.) " " ' Jan. 21, 1859 

12. Jacob Brinkerhoff " " " April 7, 1846 

13. Mary G. Brinkerhoff (Mrs.) " " " April 7, 1846 

14. Silas C. Smith " " " July 4, 1848 

15. Mary Smith (Mrs.) " " " July 4, 1848 

16. David I. Huntington " " " Mch. 23, 1852 

17. Emily S. Huntington (Mrs.) " " " Mch. 23, 1852 

18. Harriet S. Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph 

Stone) " " " Oct. 23, 185 1 

19. David Bourne " " " April 29, 1851 

20. Mary Gray (Mrs.) " " " June 19, 1841 

21. Francis N. Shaw " " " Nov. 6, 1843 

22. William M. Ray " " " Feb. 20, 1846 

23. Charles Roberts " " " June 8, 1842 

24. Martin Uhler " " " April 12, 1842 

25. Augustus Hustace " " " July 29, 1844 

26. J. W. Fellows " " " Sept. 27, 1841 

27. Mary A. Fellows (Mrs.) " " " Sept. 27, 1841 

28. Charlotte Crawford (Mrs.) " " " April 4, 1848 

29. Catherine Potter (wid. John) " " " Died. No date 

30. Hezekiah Whitney " " " May 1, 1854 

31. Rachel B. Sickles " " " Jan. 4, 1844 

32. John S. Savory " " " Dec. 27, 1845 

33. Benjamin Waterbury " " " 1880 

34. Isaac E. Smith " " " Aug. 9, 1859 

35. George Williams " " " Nov. 28, 1845 

36. Samuel C. Hills " " " July 4, 1848 

37. Hervey F. Lombard " " " Sept. 17, 1842 

38. Charles G. Wright " " " May 10, 1843 

39. Harriet Barry (Mrs. Meeks) " " " Feb. 26, 1844 

40. Jaqueline Barry (Mrs. Hoxie) " " " Oct. 29, 1845 

41. Lavinia Quackenboss " " " Nov. 23, 1852 

42. George Dryden " " " Oct. 1, 1850 

43. Barbara Dryden (Mrs.) " " " Oct. 1, 1850 

44. Ann Hicks (Mrs. Watkins) " " " April 15, 1842 

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No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

45. Catherine Alexander 

46. Elva James (Mrs. Wm. Macdougal). 

47. Eliza H. Bacon (Mrs.) 

48. Stephen Pritchard 

49. Asa K. Allen 

50. Cordelia Halsey (Mrs. Brown) 

51. Sarah Probasco (Mrs.) 

52. Susannah Orr 

53. Elizabeth A. Wicks (Mrs. Curtis)... 

54. Alfred W. Smith 

55. Leonard Crocker 

56. Penelope Crocker (Mrs.) 

57. William G. West 

58. Orange A. Smith 

59. John C. Cass 

60. Susan W. Cass (Mrs.) 

61. William G. Lambert 

62. Asa Parker 

63. Rebecca I. Parker (Mrs.) 

64. Alexander Patrick 

65. Louisa Patrick (wid. Alexander) 

66. John W. Crane 

67. James E. P. Dean 

68. Albert Woodruff 

69. George G. Jewett 

70. Jane L. Smith (Mrs.) 

71. Albert L. Winship 

72. Charlotte S. Turner Dec. 

73. Abial Brush Hageman 

74. Sarah Gray 

75. Charles R. Harvey 

76. Rebecca Harvey (Mrs.) 

77. Marcia L. Harvey (Mrs. Elliott) 

78. Ann Frost (Mrs. Wood) 

79. Sylvia Griswold (Mrs.) 

80. Rebecca Wood (wid. Benjamin) 

81. Sarah Sickles (Mrs.) 

82. Stephen C. Gray 

83. Harriet Gray (Mrs.) 

84. Harriet Gant (Mrs.) 

85. Thomas Lane 

86. John W. Hall 

87. Priscilla Polhemus (wid. John Gray) . 

88. Catherine Doyle 

89. R. E. Dibbles 

90. Mary Dibbles (Mrs.) 

91. E. Warren Andrews 

92. Maria C. Hopkins 

93. Louisa Weed 

94. James Cruikshank 

95. Mary Ann Wheeler (Mrs. Cruikshank) 

96. Sarah Woodruff (Mrs.) 

97. Harriet Woodruff (Mrs.) 

98. Cynthia Woodruff 

99. Elizabeth Elder (Mrs.) 

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" " " 


July 5, it 


" " " 


Jan. 13, i£ 




Feb. I, it 


" " " 


May 25, iS 


" " " 


Aug. 30, it 


" " " 


Nov. 18, ii 


" " " 


Dec. 6, it 


" " " 


Nov. 11, it 




Nov. 11, it 


" " " 


Aug. 21, it 


" " " 


Dec. 14, it 


« « « 


Jan. 3, it 


„ ,, „ 


Mch. 31, it 


" " " 


April 22, it 


" " " 


Dec, ii 


" " " 


Dec. 21, it 


11 u i< 


Sept. 9, it 


" " " 


April 8, it 


a a 11 


April 30, i£ 


Oct. 26, 1840 


Dec. 17, ii 


" " " 


Sept. 30, 1* 




Dec. 6, it 


11 tt tt 


July I, I* 


Dec. 28, 1840 


Nov. 24, 1 




April 19, i* 


" " " 


Mch. 6, it 


Mch. 1, 1841 


May 22, ii 




May 22, iE 


" " " 


Dec. 24, il 


" " " 


Nov. 12, 1$ 


tt tt tt 


Dec. 29, iS 


" " " 


May 24, I 




Jan. 4, 1 


" " " 


May 12, I* 


" " " 


Mch. 6, 1 


" " " 


May 6, 1 


" " " 


Oct. 2, 1 


" " " 


Mch. 1, 1* 


" " " 


July -, ii 


" " " 


May 8, 1 


" " " 


Oct. 23, 1 


" " " 


Sept. 9, i* 


" " " 


Nov. 28, il 


" " " 


Jan. 6, I* 


" " " 


Dec. 25, it 


" " " 


Feb. 15, it 


11 « 11 


Feb. 15, it 


11 11 11 


Dec. 17, if 


11 11 ii 


Dec. 17, it 


11 11 11 


Dec. 17, it 


" " " 


April 7, it 



Chronological List of Members 



Name. When Received. 

. Lydia K. Shipman (wid. De Grass) . . Mch. I, 1841 

. Elizabeth De Witt (Mrs. Robinson).. " " 

. Albert W. Huntington " " " 

. Hazen S. Crook " " " 

. Sarah A. Belany (Mrs. Whitlock) . . . " " " 

. Julia A. Belany (Mrs. Warner) " " 

. Caroline Wheeler (Mrs.) " " " 

. Elizabeth M. Benton May 2, 1841 

. Lucy Rogers " " " 

. Jacob Freeland " " " 

. Henry A. Halsey " " " 

. Ann H. Halsey (Mrs.) " " " 

. Deborah C. Woolley (Mrs. Evans)... " " " 

. Emily W. Smithe (wid. Isaac E.) " " " 

. Ann Eliza Merritt (Mrs.) " " " 

. Catherine Matilda Peck (wid. Benj.). " " " 

. Elizabeth Savory (Mrs. Bradley) " " " 

. Daniel Whiting " " 

. Susan P. Whiting (wid. Daniel) " " " 

. Julia R. Towne (Mrs.) " " " 

. Mary Mulliner " " " 

. Jesse W. Benedict " " " 

. Joseph W. Camp " " " 

. Edward E. Rankin " " " 

. Erastus L. Ripley " " " 

. Julia Ann Wetmore July 4, 1841 

. William R. Powell " " " 

. Ann R. Powell (wid. William R.).... " " " 

. Edward S. Bates " " " 

. Mary G. Bates (wid. Edward S.) " " " 

. William W. Fessenden " " " 

. Elsworth M. Punderson " " " 

. Margaret Kingsbury (Mrs.) " " " 

. Elizabeth Quiller (Mrs.) " " " 

. Emma Smith (Mrs.) " " " 

. Charles G. Pratt " " " 

. Hector Sears " " " 

. Lewis P. Clover " " " 

. Bridget Clover (Mrs. Hibbard) " " " 

. Clarissa Buel (Mrs. Treadwell) " " " 

. Rosina Hamill " " " 

. Franklin Sayre " " " 

. Thomas P. Gustin " " " 

. Jonathan F. Morris " " " 

. Russell W. Robinson " " " 

. Julia Johnson Sept. 5, 1841 

. Almira Ebbetts " 

. Elizabeth Meeker (Mrs.) " " " 

. Munson Lockwood " " " 

. Charlotte Lockwood (wid. Munson) . . " " " 

. Benjamin Lockwood " " " 

. Olivia Lockwood (wid. Frederick) " " " 

. Elizabeth Lockwood (wid. Benjamin). " " " 

. Le Grand Lockwood " " " 

. Henry M. Bendict " " " 

259 



When Removed. 


Jan. 21, 


T862 


Jan. 6, 


i«47 


Dec. 8, 




Oct. 3, 


1 


Sept. 2, 




July 18, 


• 


April 27, 




May 23, 








May, 


184^ 


Feb. 17, 




May 27, 


1 !i 


June 20, 


[848 


Aug. 9, 


18SO 


Nov. 23, 


1 w 


Mch. 1, 




June 5, 


[840- 


Jan. 19, 


r 


Jan. 19, 


■ a 


Sept. 14, 


1843 


Nov. 22, 


■■;■: 


June 13, 


1842 


Feb. 3, 


c«S2 


Dec. 27, 


' i 


Nov. 24, 


1 ■ 


Nov. 26, 


1842 


June 16, 


18SI 


June 16, 


18^ 


Dec. 28, 


I ' 


Dec. 28, 


84 


May 5, 


18&Q 


Mch. 10, 


184^ 


Sept. 22, 


18^ 


Feb. 28, 


1843 


Oct. 14, 


,, 


April 30, 




June 24, 


18SI 


June 6, 


I8S4 


June 6, 




Oct. 12, 


ISJ.7 


June is, 


14 


Jan. 10, 


! 


July 20, 




Nov. 23, 




Mch. 28, 


<:■:■■,-, 


Mch. 5, 




May 4, 




May 29, 




Nov. 28, 


[84 


Nov. 28, 




May 27, 


84 




a 


May 27, 


i;-af, 


Mch. 27, 


iXrn 


Aug. 29, 


1854 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



No. Name. When Received. 

155. Mary Frazier (Mrs.) Sept. 5, 1841 

156. Elizabeth Frazier 

157. Mary Smith 

158. Ann Eliza Deniston (Mrs. Wanzer).. 

159. Mary W. Jewett (Mrs.) 

160. Betsey Ann Harris 

161. Thomas J. Hall 

162. Olinda A. Camp (wid. Amzi) Nov. 7, 1841 

163. Adaline Winchester (Mrs. Knight) ... " 

164. Rachel Milligan 

165. Eliza Stephenson (Mrs. S. H. Crook). 

166. Mary C. Carnes (Mrs.) 

167. Sarah Oakley 

168. Maria A. Stone 

169. John D. Carnes 

170. Mary Crocker (Mrs.) 

171. Agnes Sage (Mrs.) 

172. Philomela Strickland 

173. Caroline Stannard 

174. Margaret Frazier 

175. Luther Williams 

176. Frances Louisa Williams 

177. Charles L. Westervelt 

178. Nathaniel Barnum 

179. Samuel Whitney 

180. Cyrus S. Minor 

181. Moses M. Bradley 

182. Aaron Q. Thompson 

183. Martha Jane Clover 

184. Lucy T. Hale {Mrs. S. Conover) 

185. Laura Hale {Mrs. J. W. Camp) 

186. William H. Whitlock Jan. 2, 1842 

187. Elizabeth Whitlock (William H.) . . . . " 

188. Mary L. Whitlock 

189. Susan Rebecca Webb 

190. James I. Walworth 

191. Elizabeth C. Walworth (James I.)... 

192. Frederick H. Johnson 

193. Euphemia Sutherland (Mrs.) 

194. Joanna Sutherland 

195. Jane McVickars (Mrs. Rickett) 

196. William H. Moore 

197. Nathaniel Davidson 

198. William P. Comstock 

199. Betsey G. Swain (Mrs.) 

200. James H. French 

201. Mary W. French (Mrs.) 

202. David H. Fitch 

203. Mary C. Fitch (David H.) 

204. Erock Samuel Bur strand 

205. Adaline Chapman (Mrs.) (Mrs. Sam- 

uel Wanser) 

206. Susan Clark (Mrs. ) 

207. Harriet Wheeler 

208. Frances Smedley 

260 



:86o 



1842 



When Removed. 
July 27, 
July 27, 
Mch. 29, 
Aug. 22, 
Sept. 30, 
Sept. 17, 
Feb. 13, 
May 3, 
Oct. 17, 
Nov. 1, 
Oct. 3, 
July 2, 
Oct. 17, 
Nov. 23, 
May 25, 
Nov. 11, 
June 29, 
Oct. 11, 
May 10, 
July 27, 
May 13, 
May 13, 
Nov. 23, 
May 20, 
April 21, 
Dec. — , 
Jan. 9, 
Jan. 13, 
June 22, 
Oct. 28, 
Feb. 3, 
Sept. 2, 

Sept. 2, 
Sept. 9, : 
July 18, : 
July 18, 
Nov. 23, 
Nov. 4, : 
Mch. 1, : 
May 1, 
Mch. 6, 
Mch. 1, 
Feb. 25, 
Dec. 28, 

Nov. s, 
May 20, 
May 20, 
Jan. 22, 

May I, 
Oct. 12, ] 
Mch. 16, 1 
Dec. " 



Chronological List of Members 



Name. When Received. When Removed. 

Mary Jane Hulslander (Mrs. Calhoun) Mch. 6, 1842 April 26, 

Lewis Pugh " " " Aug. 30, 

Ruth Grovener " " " Sept. 30, 

Mary G. Jewett " " " Sept. 30, 

George Andrews " " " June 27, 

Sarah Andrews (George) " " " June 27, 

Charles Durfee " " " Dec. 1, 

Harriet A. Gregory " " " Nov. 10, 

William M. Bennett " " " May 25, 

John Chapman " " " Mch. — , 

Anna J. Chapman (Mrs.) (Mrs. Ed- " " " Jan. 22, 

ward Brown) 

George W. Trembly " " " Mch. 4, : 

Ann Eliza Goddard (Mrs. Thomas 

Hinwood) " " " Nov. 15, 

Julia Ann Reed (Mrs. Davis) " " " Sept. 5, 

Cornelius B. Hulshart " " " Oct. 12, 

Mary Hulshart (Cornelius B.) " " " Aug. 17, 

Maria L. Brown (Mrs.) " " " Nov. 28, 

David S. Williams " " " April 22, 

Alanson Taylor " " " June 13, 

Rebecca Taylor (Alanson) " " " June 13, 

Hannah Church (Mrs.) " " " Nov. 28, 

Sarah Jane Church " " " Nov. 28, 

John Burdell " " " April 12, 

John Bacon " " " July 2, 

Mary L. Jackson (Mrs.) " " " Sept. 26, 

Alvan Reed " " " Aug. 28, 

Sarah White (Mrs.) " " " April 2, 

Harriet B. Thompson (Mrs.) " " " Aug. 12, 

Thomas N. Dale " " " May 6, 

Amelia Hetcham " " " April 30, 

William A. Swain " " " Dec. 28, 

Jacob Brinkerhoif, Jr. May 1, 1842 May 6, 

Mary Moore " " " Nov. 23, 

Sarah Jane Smith (Mrs. Cooke) " " " April 3, 

James Smith " " " July 3, 

Elwood Stratton " " " April 11, 

Aurelia Snow (Mrs.) " " " June 18, 

Elizabeth Stanley (Mrs.) " " " Feb. 27, 

Charlotte Jessup (Mrs. Joseph N. 

Walker) " " " April 29, 

Lydia Jessup (Mrs.) " " " May 1, 

James Olmsted , " " " Sept. 14, 

Mary Ann Cruikshank (Theodore)... " " " July 29, 

Thomas C. Chandler " ' " Mch. 14, 

Richard S. Cross " " " Dec. 8, 

Stephen Conover, Jr " " " Oct. 28, 

Henry Camp " " " Mch. 18, 

Hannah J. Ross " " " Sept. 9, 

Olive Wilkie (Mrs.) " " " May 23, 

Hannah Wheeler (Mrs. Gray) " " " July 25, 

Eliza Dubois (Mrs.) " " " Mch. 6, 

Lucy Leuber " " " Mch. 6, 

Ann Maria Lovett " " " Nov. 28, 

261 



:843 



:3S5 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



. When Removed. 
Nov. I, ]" 
July l8, I 
July 2, 
May 24, 
Mch. 8, 
April 30, 1 



No. Name. 

261. Sarah Elder {Mrs. Greenleaf) 

262. Amintor Davidson 

263. Mary F. Holbrook 

264. Melvina Heath {Mrs. ) 

265. Aaron B. Heath 

266. John Gray 

267. Sarah Maria Dempsey (Mrs. L. 

Moore) 

268. Rose Ann Miller 

269. Jeremiah C. Lanphier 

270. Courtland P. S. Betts 

271. Charles D. Brown 

272. John G. O'Brien 

273. Gerard Bancker 

274. Josiah A. Priest 

275. Elisabeth Ball (Mrs. ) July 

276. Charles Denham 

277. William H. Moseley 

278. 5. H. Provost 

279. Ann Delia Turcott (Mrs.) 

280. George Hillier 

281. Eve Blanchard 

282. Calvin S. Knight 

283. Mary W. Fox (Mrs.) 

284. Jeremiah P. Robinson 

285. Pliny Allen 

286. Louisa Allen (wid. Pliny) 

287. Elizabeth S. A. Curtis 

288. William W. Smith 

289. Deborah Reed (Mrs.) 

290. Mary Ann Smith (Mrs.) 

291. Elizabeth Austin (Mrs.) 

292. Mary Ann Austin 

293. Cynthia Jones 

294. Henry I. Sartwell 

295. Edward I. Smith Sept. 

296. Richard G. E. Humphrys 

297. Myron H. Crafts 

298. John L. Bennett 

299. Amanda Bennett (John L.) 

300. Jane Hustace (Mrs.) 

301. Henry Martin 

302. George Hinman 

303. Seely ScoHeld 

304. Elizabeth Bennett (Mrs. Moses Stock- 

man) 

305. Louisa Johnson (wid. Robert) 

306. Charles Frederick Burchett 

307. Harriet Rice Nov. 

308. Sarah Lewis (Mrs.) 

309. Mary T. West (William G.) 

310. Alice Clifton (Joseph) 

311. Phebe Miller 

312. Emalinda Miller 

313. Sarah Smith (John) 

262 



1842 



Sept. 26, 1850 
Jan. 4, rQ ' n 
May 13, j 
April 26, ] 

Nov. 23, 
June 28, 
Aug. 6, 
April 29, : 
Jan. 12, 
April 8, 
Mch. 5, 
May 23, 
Feb. 25, 
May 28, * 
Nov. 17, 1 
Jan. 6, ] 
Sept. 17, i 
Sept. 17, : 
Sept. 17, 
Nov. 22, . 
Mch. 14, 1 
July 11, : 
Mch. 25, : 
Mch. 25, : 
April 3, 
April is, 
Jan. 4, 
Jan. 24, 
Sept. 17, 
Oct. 9, 
Oct. 9, 
July 29, 
Nov. 2, 
Nov. 30, 
Sept. 9, 



" Dec. 9, 185 1 

" Nov. 4, 1845 

" Nov. 30, 1852 

1842 Nov. 7, 1843 

" Mch. 1, 1853 

Dec. 27, 1854 

Oct. 30, 1850 

June 30, 1863 

Oct. 12, 1847 

Mch. 15, 1848 



Chronological List of Members 



No. Name. When Received. 

314. Frances Dotey Nov. 6, 1842 

315. Augustus F. Ball " " " 

316. Mary D. C. Schreiber Jan. 1, 1843 

317. Emily P. Kummell " " " 

318. Betsey Thompson " " " 

319. Eunice Thompson (Mrs.) " " " 

320. Forman Hendrickson " " " 

321. Eleanor Hendrickson (Forman) " " " 

322. Robert Johnson " " " 

323. Nathan Camp " " " 

324. Araty Camp (Nathan) " " " 

325. Albert Dodge " " " 

326. Amzi Camp " " " 

327. Hannah N. Smith (wid. Mrs. William 

H. Gates) " 

328. John Sloane " " " 

329. John P. Hull " " " 

330. John D. Hart, J V " " " 

331. Margaret L. Fowle (Mrs.) Mch. 5, 1843 

2,3,2. John A. Fowle " " " 

333. Mason B. Browning " " " 

334. Moses Christy '. . . " " " 

335. Elizabeth Austin Hawes (Mrs.) " " " 

336. Sarah Ann Rowe " " " 

337. Cornelia Hall " " 

338. Benjamin F. Browning " " " 

339. John Stackhouse " " " 

340. John Ranson " " " 

341. Angeline White May 7, 1843 

342. Elizabeth Waugh (James L.) " " " 

343. Emily Hatfield (Mrs. Rogers) " " " 

344. Catharine R. Hatfield (Mrs. Minor) . . " " " 

345. Melissa Hatfield (Mrs. Abel. K. 

Thompson) " " " 

346. Amarantha Hatfield " " " 

347. Charles R. Hatfield " " ' 

348. John S. Cook " " " 

349. Joseph Terry " " " 

350. Benjamin Menair " " " 

351. Abby Ann Cooke (Mrs. Ray) " " " 

352. Fanny Pollock (Mrs. ) " " " 

353. Edward A. Clock " " " 

354. William H. Snow " " " 

355. Lucy W. Dresser (Mrs.) " " " 

356. Emma Robinson (Hamilton W.) " " " 

357. Elisabeth Dennison (Mrs.) " " " 

358. Phebe Bancker (Mrs.) " " " 

359. Catharine Sigler (Mrs. Scofield) " " " 

360. Samuel Elder " " " 

361. Sarah Hawkins (Willet) " " " 

362. Joseph Harris " " " 

363. Hannah T. French (Mrs.) " " " 

364. Mary Cousins " " " 

365. Eliza Cousins (Mrs. Parker) , " " " 

366. Jane Cousins (Mrs. Menair) " " " 

263 



:854 



When Removed. 

Nov. 25, 
Aug. 26, 
Jtfy 30, 

May 1, 
Aug. 25, 
Mch. 15, 
June 26, 
June 26, 
Feb. 16, 
Sept. 28, 
Sept. 28, 
Nov. 23, 
Mch. 25, 



Feb. 24, 
Aug. 5, 
Aug. 17, 
Jan. 29, 
Mch. 6, 
Mch. 6, 
Mch. 6, 
Sept. 5, 
Jan. 16, 
May I, 
June 25, 
Jan. 7, 

Nov. 23, 
May 1, 
Aug. 5, 
Oct. 16, 
Dec. 15, 

April 30, 
Aug. 3, 
Aug. 27, 
Dec. 17, 
Nov. 23, 
June 12, 
Feb. 20, 
Jan. 25, 
July - 
June 18, 
Jan. 4, 
Aug. 



Nov. 23, 1852 
Oct. 23, " 



June 7 
Nov. 20, 
Jan. 25, 
Jan. 14, 
May 2, 
Oct. 25, 
Jan. 7, 
Oct. 11, 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

367. Isabella Menair (Benjamin) May 7, 1843 June 12, 1846 

368. Martha Menair " " " 1845 

369. Ann Harris (Mrs. Shillington) " " " Dec. 29, 1846 

370. John Jenkins Allen " " " May 23, 1844 

371. Harriet Allen (John J.) " " " May 23, 1844 

372. Isaac Morris " " " Mch. 30, 1847 

373. Mary Morris " " " Mch. 30, 1847 

374. Horace Dresser " " " Feb. 26, 1856 

375. Eliza Testman (wid. John) " " " July 11, 1873 

376. Julia B. Meeker (Mrs. Pugsley) " " " Nov. 13, 1849 

377. Henry Whittelsey " " " April 29, 1879 

378. Rufus Lockwood " " " April 2, 1845 

379. Samuei N. Stebbins " " " May 6, 1846 

380. Margaret Murray (Mrs. Fletcher) July 2, 1843 July 30, 185 1 

381. Edward F. Treadwell ' June 15, 1847 

382. George Pollock =... " " " Jan. 25, 1849 

383. William Manwaring " " " Mch. 1, 1853 

384. Lydia W. Bulkley " " " Oct. 23, 1849 

385. Martha Ann Day " " " April 22, 185 1 

386. Elizabeth Ann Watkinson " " " Jan. 7, 1850 

387. Jane Cummings Watkinson (Mrs. Elias 

Gill) , " '* " Feb. 3, 1853 

388. Isaac C. Mayer " " " Dec. 16, 1847 

389. Henrietta N. Mayer (Isaac C.) " " " Dec. 16, 1847 

390. Samuel R. Morse " " " Aug. 30, 1853 

391. Walter Reid " " " April 22, 1857 

392. Margaret D. Reid (Walter) " " " April 22, 1857 

393. Margaret Salters (Mrs.) Sept. 4, 1843 Feb. 27, 1855 

394. Catherine Johnson (wid. Henry Hall) . " " " Jan. 18, 1853 

395. Abigail Stubes " " " Mch. 27, 1866 

396. Elizabeth Doak " " " April 12, 1844 

397. Marcus B. Sanford " " " May 12, 1845 

398. Susan Rochester (wid. Joseph) " " " July 28, 1882 

399. Jira Payne " " " Dec. 21, 1844 

400. Sarah Wareham (Mrs.) (Mrs. Edwin 

S.Pierce) " " " Sept. 17, 1862 

401. May Lavinia Paige (Mrs. ) " " " Oct. 30, 1849 

402. Mary Ann Wright (Mrs.) Nov. 5, 1843 Feb. — , 1862 

403. Susan Colesworthy (Mrs.) " " " July 20, 1847 

404. Mary Bruorton (Mrs. ) Jan. 7, 1844 Aug. 22, 1848 

405. Asahel Jones " " " Aug. 22, 1848 

406. Mary I. Jones (Asahel) " " " Aug. 22, 1848 

407. Robert G. Leonori " " " Feb. 15, 1849 

408. Mary Ann Thompson " " " Aug. 5, 1850 

409. Sarah Ann Eaton (Mrs.) ' " " July 22, 1848 

410. Sarah Gill (wid. James) " " " Sept. 11, 1862 

411. Samuel Fisher " " " Oct. 31, 1848 

412. Mima Ann Fisher (Samuel). " " " Oct. 31, 1848 

413. Benjamin M. Wilson " " " April 2, 1845 

414- Mary W. Wilson " " " April 2, 1845 

415- Maria Clough (wid. Isaac) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

416. Sarah Van Sice (Mrs. Kelsey) " " " April — , 1850 

417. Miranda W. Crafts (Myron H.) " " " Sept. 17, 1845 

418. Frederick Hennell " " " Jan. 28, 1845 

419. Charles W. Benedict " " " Jan. 27, 1853 

264 



Chronological List of Members 



459- 
4O0. 
461. 
462. 
463- 
464. 
465- 
466. 
467. 



Name. When Received. 

George W. Dunsmore Jan. 7, 1844 

Edward Ward " " " 

Sophia Ward (Edward) " " " 

George Beard " " " 

Eleanor Beard (George) " " " 

Aurelia Osborn " " " 

James Menair Mch. 3, 1844 

Alexander F. Welsh " " " 

Hannah Thompson (Mrs.) " " " 

Matilda J. Hart (Seth) " " " 

Henry Ames " " " 

Seth W. Benedict " " " 

Fanny R. Benedict ( Seth W. ) " " " 

Ann Louisa Lockwood (Mrs.) " " " 

Margaret Humphreys (Mrs. ) May 5, 1844 

Margaret Stephenson (Mrs.) " " " 

Elizabeth Boozy (Mrs.) " " " 

John D. Carnes " " " 

Harriet E. Whittelsey (Mrs. Giles P. 

Van Ness) July 7, 1844 

Thomas B. Griffith " " " 

Frances Harris (Mrs.) " " " 

Sarah Beach (wid. David) " " " 

James W. Higgins " " " 

Eleanor R. Higgins " " " 

Eleanor Higgins (James W.) " " " 

Elizabeth L. Lee (Mrs.) " " " 

Eliza Barton (Mrs.) " " " 

Lydia Pearson (Mrs.) " " " 

Maria L. Hills (Mrs.) Nov. 3. 1844 

Isaiah Beesley " " " 

Jane Holmes (Mrs.) " " " 

Thomas E. Smith " " " 

Gilbert T. Pugsley " " " 

Francis L. Benedict " " " 

John Hinchey " " " 

Esther Sears (Mrs.) Jan. 5, 1845 

Mary P. Janes (wid. Elijah) " " " 

AbbyH. Davis (Mrs.) (Mrs. Holmes) " " " 

Chloe Drake (Mrs. ) " " " 

Flora A. Smith (Mrs.) " " " 

Sarah M. Harris (Mrs. ) " " " 

Mary J. Cox (Mrs. Carnes) " " " 

George W. Pratt Mch. 2, 1845 

Mary Pratt (George W.) " " " 

David A. Hale " " " 

John Springer " " " 

Thomas Ritter " " " 

Delia M. Ritter (wid. Thomas) " " " 

George F. Glessing " " " 

John C. West " " " 

John Crowe " " " 

Sarah Van Sice (wid. Joseph) May 4, 1845 

Amanda Van Sice (Mrs. Montanye) . . " " " 

Julia Hale (Mrs.) " " " 

265 



Oct. 12, 


14 


April 7, 




April 7, 




April 24, 




April 24, 


] 


April 24, 


i8;i 


Oct. 11, 


IuJ4 


Sept. 9, 


I8SI 


Dec. 17, 


I84S 


Nov. 28, 


1900 


Nov. 23, 


18S2 


Mch. 4, 


I8S6 


Jan. 9, 




Mch. 27, 


tHoo 


May 10, 


[8 


April — , 


..-■ 


Dec. 14, 


i8s2 


Jan. 26, 


1847 


Feb. io, 


tRqt 


Mch. 26, 


t8st 


Jan. 14, 


i8sq 


Nov. 1, 


• 


June 30, 




June 30, 


■ 


June 30, 


1 


Nov. 23, 




April 5, 


184Q 


Jan. -, 


[«47 


July 4, 


iXj;:, 


Feb. 1, 


i:.',o 


Oct. 13, 


1848 


Feb. 25, 


Xlfefl 


Nov. 13, 


1840 


Mch. 1, 


18S.1 


May 24, 


l«4Q 


Dec. 17, 


184^ 


Jan. 29, 


1850 


Nov. 9, 


! 


July 30, 




Dec. 1, 


■;<,. 


Sept. 9, 


18SI 


Jan. 26, 


1847 


June 9, 


I«W 


June 9, 


<■■■ 


Sept. 7, 


1800 


Nov. 13, 


I8 4 Q 


May 12, 


1876 


Jan. 30, 

May 31, 


1892 
18SS 


Nov. — , 


T8s8 


Aug. 28, 


I8SS 


Sept. — , 


1861 


Aug. — , 




Mch. 27, 


184b 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

474. Norman L. Hart May 4, 1845 June 27, 1847 

475. John L. Baillie July 6, 1845 May 1, 1850 

476. David Ritter " " " June 14, 1854 

477. Oliver P. Hatfield " " " Jan. 13, 1852 

478. Laura Hatfield " " " June 1, 1847 

479. Martha A. Denniston (Mrs. R. W. 

Ryckman) " " " May 27, 185 1 

480. Henrietta R. Denniston " " " Dec. 15, 1853 

481. Thomas E. Hulse " " " May 22, 1855 

482. Pamelia Ann Hulse (Thomas E.) " " " May 22, 1855 

483. Catharine Masterson (Mrs. Dinning). " " " Jan. 7, 1852 

484. Henry M. Miller " " " Nov. 23, 1852 

485. Isaac B. Lott " " " Mch. 1, 1853 

486. Mary Smith (Mrs.) " " " May 12, 1868 

487. William Thompson Sept. 7, 1845 June 8, 1858 

488. Hannah Henderson (Edward T.) Nov. 2, 1845 Nov. 23, 1852 

489. John M. Grant " " " May 1, 1854 

490. George Walker " " " Aug. 9, 1859 

491. Minerva H. Walker (George) " " " Aug. 9, 1859 

492. Joseph P. Thompson " " " Nov. 15, 1871 

493. Lucy O. Thompson (Joseph P.) " " " Jan. 27, 1852 

494. Charles Williams " " " Dec. 12, 1872 

495. Eliza Williams (Charles) " " " Dec. 12, 1872 

496. William C. Gilman " " " Mch. 1, 1849 

497. Eliza Gilman (William C.) " " " Mch. 1, 1849 

498. Elizabeth C. Gilman " " " Mch. 1, 1849 

499. Maria P. Gilman " " " Mch. 1, 1849 

500. Edward W. Gilman " " " June 1, 1847 

501. Ira A. Thurber Jan. 4, 1846 Nov. 24, 1846 

502. Huldah Thurber (Ira A.) " " " Nov. 24, 1846 

503. Sarah Jane Low " " " Dec. 8, 1851 

504. Sarah H. Springer (wid. John) (Mrs. 

James W. Redfield) " " " Nov. 8, i860 

505. Gideon Watts Sherman " " " June 22, 1847 

506. George S. Winchester " " " Nov. 23, 1852 

507. Sarah Rozat (Guillaume) " " " Aug. 23, 1863 

508. Noah Gilmore Mch. 1, 1846 Nov. 12, 1852 

509. Horace R. Latimer " " " June 2, 1853 

510. Mary B. Latimer (Horace R.) " " " June 2, 1853 

511. Marie Louise Newlin " " " June 24, 1847 

512. Abigail Ann Wait (Joseph) " " " June 27, 1850 

513. Joseph Wait, Jr " " " June 27, 1850 

514. Thomas John Burger " " " Oct. 4, 1849 

515. Mary Ann Smith (James) " " " Nov. 16, 1861 

516. Oliver P. Scovell May 3, 1846 Oct. 26, 1852 

517. Edward Burchard " " " Nov. 8, 1862 

518. Henry G. Judd " " " April — , 1851 

519. Clinton Clapp " " " Jan. 12, 1852 

520. Albert L. Comstock " " " Dec. 27, 1850 

521. Catharine M. Comstock (Albert L.).. " " " Dec. 27, 1850 

522. Sarah E. Comstock " " " Dec. 27, 1850 

523. James E. H. Wallin " " " April 10, 1851 

524. Elizabeth K. Wallin (James E. H.).. " " " April 10, 185 1 

525. Henry A. Merrill " " " July 9, 1850 

526. Sarah Merrill (Henry A.) " " " July 9, 1850 

266 



546. 



Chronological List of Members 

Name. When Received. When Removed. 

Marilla W. Hall (Francis M.) May 3. 1846 Dec. 19, 1854 

Phila A. Williams (David S.) " " " April 22, 1852 

Ward A. Work " " " Aug. 3, 1848 

James L. Ensign " " " Oct. 9, 1854 

Andrew W. Rose " " " June 25, 1852 

Mary F. Davidson {Amintor) " " " Nov. 18, 1847 

Eliza Moseley {William H.) . , " " " Jan. 12, 1852 

Martha Jane Moore {Mrs. Scott) " " " Feb. 24, 1852 

Harriet L. Gilman " " " Mch. 1, 1849 

Mary Ellen Vallar {Mrs. Ferdinand 

Engeholm) " " " Mch. 26, 1852 

Sarah N. Smith " " " April 20, 1890 

Catharine Clifton {Mrs. Van Tuyl) . . " " " Feb. 24, 1852 

Susan H. Cass " " " Nov. 30, 1852 

Edgar W. Davies July 5, 1846 Mch. 20, 1849 

Edward S. Pinney " " " Jan. 22, 1850 

John B. Alvord " " " Jan. 25, 1848 

William A. Morgan " " " May 31, 1849 

Roxana Morgan (William A.) " " " May 31, 1849 

Edwin S. Pierce " " " Oct. 30, 1849 

Charles H. Waterbury " " " Feb. 19, 1861 

Joseph T. Whitlock " " " Sept. 2, 1851 

Frederick G. Huntington " " " July 2, 1847 

Emanuel Conart " " " Dec. 27, 1850 

Bruce Pierce " " " Aug. 31, 1852 

James H. Hoyt " " " July 13, 1848 

James Redmond " " " Nov. 7, 1848 

Margaret Place {Robert) " " " July 20, 1848 

Abby A. Bush " " " Feb. 20, 1855 

Rebecca H. Pearl {Mrs. Cady) " " " April 29, 1852 

Elisabeth Laidlaw " " " May 16, 1857 

Louisa C. Halsey {Mrs. McCarty) " " " May — , 1853 

Mary Frances Camp {Mrs. Mott) " " " Nov. 7, 1854 

Ann Eliza Camp " " " Aug. — ,1865 

Mary P. Watkinson " " " Feb. 3, 1852 

Jane F. Clifton {Mrs. Williams) " " " Jan. 11, 1856 

Charlotte Hale " " " Oct. 28, 1852 

Christian R. Hatfield " " " Feb. 2, 1850 

Frances S. Minor {Mrs. Heath) " " " Jan. 21, 1859 

John S. Batchelder Sept. 6, 1846 May 30, 1850 

William S. Miller " " " Oct. 21, 1852 

Frances A. Boyd (Mrs.) " " " July 4, 1848 

Ann Crosby (Mrs.) " " " Feb. 19, 1849 

Jane Anderson (Mrs. David Gibbs)... " " " April 12, 1861 

Frederick Lockwood " " " May 13, 1872 

Lewis T. Halsey " " " Nov. — , 1853 

Ira E. Thurber " " " Oct. 12, 1847 

George Frederick Scott " " " Feb. 24, 1852 

L. Ophelia Benedict {Henry N.) " " *' July 8, 1854 

Mary Isabella Dolson " " " Mch. 19, 1861 

Julia Ann Barton " " " April 15, 1848 

Julia E. Ritter {Mrs. Chase) " " " Oct. 26, 1853 

Caroline M. Titus {Mrs. Smith) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

Mary Ann Titus {Mrs. Simms) " " " April — ,1861 

Anna D. Smith " " " Oct. 11, 1864 

267 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

581. Lucy Morse (Mrs.) Nov. 1, 1846 April 29, 1851 

582. Cornelia Ensign (Mrs.) " " " Oct. 3, 1854 

583. Henry M. Halsey " " " Oct. 28, 1856 

584. Mary E. Parker (Mrs.) Mch. 7, 1847 April 22, 1862 

585. Mary C. Fellows (wid. Thomas C. 

Brown) " " " Dec. 21, 1858 

586. Susan T. Sears (Mrs.) " " " June 24, 1851 

587. Edward E. Brown " " " June 12, 1857 

588. Lucy Batchelder (Mrs.) " " " May 30, 1850 

589. James M. West " " " May 30, 1850 

590. Mary Demurest (Mrs.) " " " May 26, 1852 

591. Alexander J. Henderson " " " May 21, 1855 

592. Maria Gill (Mrs. Clark) " " " May 8, i860 

593. Mary i Ann Miller (Mrs. Becker) " " " 1858 

594. William Finlay May 2, 1847 May 1, 1849 

595. John Brown " " " Aug. 22, 1848 

596. Elizabeth T. Judd " " " April 17, 185 1 

597. Charlotte Sturges (Mrs.) July 4, 1847 April 29, 1862 

598. John Lander " " " July 30, 185 1 

599. Isabella Lander (John) " " " July 30, 1851 

600. Euphetnia Lander (Mrs. Peter Mc- 

Mellen) " " " July 30, 1851 

601. Lawrence P. Mott Mch. 7, 1847 Nov. 7, 1854 

602. Thomas Owen " " " July 2, 1850 

603. Myron J. Frisbie Sept. 5, 1847 Oct. 13, 1874 

604. Joanna E. Frisbie (wid. Myron J.)... " " " Dec. 8, 1899 

605. Anna W. Day (E. S.) " " " June 9, 1852 

606. Aminda T. Hulse " " " Mch. 1, 1858 

607. Charles S. Smith " " " Jan. 10, 1900 

608. Archibald Henderson " " " Nov. 3, 1875 

609. Archibald Campbell Nov. 7, 1847 April 19, 1848 

610. Edwin Johnson " " " May 14, 185 1 

611. Sidney H. Smith " " " Jan. 7, 1852 

612. John Williamson " " " Jan. 20, 1848 

613. Catharine Williamson (John) " " " Jan. 20, 1848 

614. William Danforth Dec. 28, 1847 Jan. 4, 1849 

615. Lydia Danforth (William) " " " July 9, i860 

616. Frances A. Danforth " " " July 9, i860 

617. Lucy Ann Brewer (Mrs.) " " " Feb. 17, 1848 

618. Marcus Mitchell " " " Mch. 27, 1855 

619. Betsey Mitchell (Marcus) " " " Mch. 27, 1855 

620. Margaret L. Winnie " " " Aug. 27, 1861 

621. Emily Gilman " " " Mch. 1, 1849 

622. Oliver W. Himrod Feb. 29, 1848 April 29, 1856 

623. Enoch Tindall " " " Oct. 3, 1848 

624. Frederick S. Hawley " " " Mch. 15, 1859 

625. Calvin Hoyt " " " 1852 

626. Theodore A. Eaton " " " Dec. —, 1852 

627. Mary Ann Huntington " " " May 5, 1875 

628. Elisabeth A. Van Ryper " " " July 12, 1853 

629. Francis M. Hall " " " Dec. 19, 1854 

630. Harriet Kingsbury " " " April 22, 1862 

631. Samuel Hoyt " " " April 29, 1861 

632. Mary A nn Hoyt (Calvin) " " " 1852 

633. Daniel Coit Gilman " " " Jan. 25, 1849 

268 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

634. William Blewett Feb. 29, 1848 Nov. 9, 1867 

635- Martha L'Amie (Mrs.) " " " Mch. 1,1858 

636. J. S. Denman (Mrs.) May 1, 1848 May 25, 1852 

637. Mary Snell (Mrs.) " " " Nov. 25, 1866 

638. Mary Ann shorn (Mrs.) " " " Nov. 23, 1852 

639. Mary Ann Snell (Mrs. Lane) " " " June 21, 1884 

640. John W. Cass " " " Nov. 30, 1852 

641. Jacob Brinkerhoff June 27, 1848 Mch. 18, 1865 

642. William F. King " " " 1857 

643. Horace Gould " " " June 7, 1850 

644. James D. Smith " " " Mch. 31, 1897 

645. Sarah Gould (Horace) " " " June 7, 1850 

646. Angeline Dolson (Gabriel L.) " " " Jan. 26, 1854 

647. Abigail Plummer (Mrs.) " " " Sept. 17, 1850 

648. Wilhemena Smith (Mrs.) " " " Oct. 11, 1864 

649. Sarah Jane Morse (Samuel R.) " " " Jan. 13, 1850 

650. Augusta Wood " " " Oct. 23, 1851 

651. Alexander Anderson " " " July 25, i860 

652. Jacob Brinkerhoff, Jr " " " April 10, 1851 

653. Andrew Jordan " " " June 1, 1852 

654. Henry Smith Aug. 29, 1848 Jan. 6, 1850 

655. Margaret H. Smith (Henry) " " " Jan. 6, 1871 

656. Benjamin Lockwood " " " Feb. 15, 1851 

657. Eliza Lockwood (Benjamin) " " " Feb. 15, 1851 

658. Archibald Hyatt " " " Mch. 1, 1858 

659. Sarah Fleming (James) Oct. 31, 1848 Jan. 10, 1859 

660. Ezra W. Goodrich " " " April 5, 1850 

661. Norman A. Calkins " " " Dec. 22, 1895 

662. Laura West (John C.) Jan. 2, 1849 Aug. 7, 1851 

663. Thomas Davies " " " Jan. 12, 1852 

664. Jane M. Benedict (Charles M. B.)... " " " Jan. 27, 1853 

665. Elsie M. Winnie " " " June 27, 1849 

666. Mary Ann Davies (Thomas) " " " Jan. 12, 1852 

667. Nathaniel Shiverick " " " Nov. 8, 1853 

668. Esther Evans (Mrs.) Feb. 27, 1849 April 16, 1851 

669. Joseph Wills " " " Feb. 5, 1850 

670. Susan Sinnixson (Mrs.) " " " April 29, 1856 

671. Alpheus Colbum " " " Mch. 1, 1858 

672. William D. Russell " " " Jan. 13, 1853 

673. Samuel Delamater May 1, 1849 July 6, 1852 

674. William H. Niles " " " May 20, 1851 

675. Thomas Hinwood " " " Nov. 16, 1855 

676. Catharine Stroble " " " Feb. 24, 1852 

677. Martin E. Kingman " " " April 19, 1853 

678. Mary C. Parker (Mrs. William H. 

Newhouse) " " " June 30, 1863 

679. Theodore Sturges " " " Feb. 24, 1852 

680. Elizabeth Herring " " " Nov. 23, 1852 

681. Catharine A. Whittlesey " " " Dec. 10, 1879 

682. Ann Eliza Meeker (Mrs.) June 26, 1849 Mch. 15, 1853 

683. Theodore L. Atkins " " " July 1, 1852 

684. Catharine Magee " " " Dec. 24, 1861 

685. John B. Buxton " " " Sept. 25, 1851 

686. Joseph Heath " " " Feb. 24, 1863 

687. Mary Elizabeth Testman " " " Nov. 8, 1858 

269 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

688. Charles M. Miller June 26, 1849 Mch. 23, 1852 

689. Alexander Magee " " " Jan. 11, 1871 

690. Elisabeth R. Collins (Mrs.) " " " June 28, 1853 

691. Christina Miller (Mrs. C. R. Hatfield) " " " Aug. 27, 1862 

692. William B. Shotwell Aug. 28, 1849 Oct. 18, 1850 

693. Robert Ayre " " " Aug. 30, 1853 

694. Louise Frances Parker (Mrs. Edward 

Townsend) " " " June 30, 1863 

695. James Bowles " " " May 20, 185 1 

696. Anne P. Bowles (James) " " " May 20, 1851 

697. Nancy Campbell Oct. 30,1849 Feb. 28, 1851 

698. Charlotte S. Whitlock " " " Sept. 2, 1851 

699. Elizabeth D. Thompson " " " Dec. 5, 1850 

700. William D. Smith Dec. 31, 1849 April 20, 1858 

701. Sarah W. Smith (William D.) " " " April 20, 1858 

702. Joseph Chapin " " " June 12, 1857 

703. James K. Warren " " " May 14, 1851 

704. Mary S. B. Bradley (Moses B.) " " " Jan. 9, 1851 

705. James Edward Pringle " " " May 15, 1855 

706. Harriet M. Jones (Mrs.) " " " Sept. 10, 1853 

707. Marianne Inwood " " " Nov. 2, 1854 

708. Georgianna M. Bartlett (Amos G.)..Feb. 26, 1850 July 17, 1856 

709. Thomas Rutherford " " " Nov. 11,1862 

710. David D. Ayres " " " Jan. 9, 1855 

711. Matthew W. Starr " " " April 14, 1869 

712. Mary M. Starr (Matthew W.) " " " April 14, 1869 

713. Amos G. Bartlett " " " Jan. 17, 1856 

714. George Taylor " " " Nov. 24, 1852 

715. Maria Wood (Ira) April 30, 1850 Oct. 23, 185 1 

716. Samuel Ewing " " " 1859 

717. Elizabeth Taylor (Mrs.) " " " 1857 

718. Emma Taylor (wid. Wm. H. Gilson) . " " " Oct. 30, 1878 

719. Amelia Taylor (wid. John A. Free- 

man) " *' " Oct. 8, 1862 

720. Mary Simond " " " June 24, 185 1 

721. E. L. Robinson (Russel W.) " " " Oct. 5, 1881 

722. James Edwin Vickridge July 1, 1850 May 1, 1854 

723. Mary Van Duyn " " " Mch. 24, 1852 

724. George P. Tindall " " " Aug. 14, 1854 

725. Benjamin D. Evans " " " May 1, 1854 

726. Margaretta Testman (Mrs. Frederick 

Adams) " " " April 6, 1859 

727. Ann M. Dayton (Mrs. Jas. Redford) . . Aug. 26, 1850 Feb. 12, 1858 

728. Joseph E. Woodbridge Oct. 29, 1850 June 2, 1853 

729. Sarah E. Woodbridge (Joseph E.)... " " " June 2, 1853 

730. George Brown " " " Dec. 4, 1852 

731- Emma Brown (George) " " " May 26, 1854 

732. George B. Dickenson Dec. 31, 1850 Mch. — , 1853 

733- Clinton P. Scoville " " " Oct. 28, 1856 

734. John A. Johnston " " " Sept. 10, 1851 

735- Anna G. Johnston (John A.) " " " Sept. 26, 1853 

736. Abagail Summer (Mrs.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

737- Morris J. Franklin Feb. 26, 1851 Jan. 5, 1858 

738. Azerbah C. Shipman " " " Mch. — , 1861 

739- George Lawrence " " " June 25, 1851 

270 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

740. Walter Jackson Feb. 26, 1851 Feb. 27, 1855 

741. Sarah Lawrence (William) " " " Dec. 15, 1851 

742. Genet Jackson (Walter) " " " Feb. 27, 1855 

743. Joseph Woodbridge April 29, 1851 Mch. 23, 1852 

744. Charles L. Woodbridge " " " June 2, 1853 

745- M. Isabella S. Hale (David A.) " " " Sept. 7, i860 

746. David Owen " " June 25, 1856 

747. Halpern Albert " " " Dec. 30, 1862 

748. Ephraim Menachem Epstein " " " April 23, 1857 

749. George W. Whiting " " " Jan. 19, 1858 

750. Charles G. Parsons " " " Mch. 1, 1858 

751. Dorothy Moses (Aaron) July 1, 1851 Oct. 13, 1869 

752. Olive C. Moses (John) " " " Dec. — , 1865 

753. Amos Temple " " " July 5, 1853 

754. Luther Halsey Gulick " " " Aug. 24, 1852 

755. Richard C. Dunn " " " April 6, 1854 

756. Mary E. Wilbor (William H.) " " " April 27, 1854 

757. James Short " " " Feb. 14, 1855 

758. John Short " " " April 29, 1856 

759. Henry Judson Sept. 1, 1851 Jan. 16, 1852 

760. Sarah F. Bowers " " " Aug. 27, 1861 

761. George Jackson " " " June 29, 1852 

762. Edward S. Wells " " " June 30, 1863 

763. Joel M. Howard " " " Sept. 26, 1854 

764. George M. Stites " " " Mch. i, 1874 

765. Maria L. Stites (George M.) " " " Mch. 5, 1878 

766. Henry C. Conkling " " " Dec. 28, 1854 

767. Augustus Gaylord Oct. 28, 1851 June 6, 1854 

768. Martha Gaylord (Augustus) " " " June 6, 1854 

769. Phillis Cooper (Mrs.) " " " Mch. 27, 1881 

770. Richard Edwards " " " April 29, 1856 

771. Jane Edwards (Richard) " " " April 29, 1856 

772. Esther Sears " " " July 1, 1854 

773. William Lord " " " Mch. — , 1874 

774- William Holdridge " " " May 24, 1855 

775- Eliza G. Holdridge (William) " " " May 24, 185S 

776. Henry C. Hall " " " April 11, 1873 

777. Cornelius Neafie " " " Nov. 30, 1852 

778. Sarah Ann Lord (wid. William) " " " Nov. 3, 1880 

779- Joseph Wills Dec. 30, 1851 Sept. 17, 1853 

780. Smith Curtis " " " June 9, 1852 

781. Elizabeth Frances Gaines " " " Oct. 3, 1853 

782. Moses Cristy " " " Aug. 20, 1861 

783. Harriet Cristy (Moses) " " " Aug. 20, 1861 

784. Jane Menair (James) " " " Feb. — , 1867 

785. William E. Whiting " " " June 5, 1858 

786. Ann L. Whiting (William E.) " " " June 5, 1858 

787. Charles Clark " " " July 1, 1856 

788. Diana Caesar (wid. Friend) " " " Jan. 25, 1859 

789. Thomas Murdock " " " Mch. 22, 1853 

790. Jane Hamilton Murdock (Thomas).. " " " Mch. 22, 1853 

791. Isabella Graham Ritter (Mrs. Henry 

L.Stevenson) " " " April 10, 1866 

792. Augustus H. Farlin " " " Nov. 1, 1853 

793- John M. Wilcox " " " Nov. 6, 1855 

271 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

794. Anna Maria Wilcox {John M.) Dec. 30,1851 Feb. 20, 1855 

795. Josiah F. Wright " " " April 27, 1852 

796. Sarah Mitchell " " " Mch. 27, 1855 

797. Elizabeth W. Forbes " " " July 16, 1887 

798. Harriet Elizabeth Chapin (Jos. W.).. " " " Nov. 22, i860 

799. Mary B. Bennett {wid. Henry) " " " Oct. 28, 1856 

800. James Duff Mch. 1, 1852 June 29, 1854 

801. Martha Duff (James) " " " June 29, 1854 

802. Susan Wills (Joseph) " " " Sept. 17, 1853 

803. Clement E. Beebe " " " April 20, 1854 

804. Rebecca Story " a " Dec. 26, 1854 

805. John A. Seymore " " " July 19, 1855 

806. John Vernon " " " Feb. 27, 1855 

807. Alonzo S. Ball " " " Oct. 25, 1853 

808. Eliza W. Ball (Alonzo S.) " " " Oct. 25, 1853 

809. Mary C. Hosier (Mrs. Norman A. 

Calkins) " " " 

810. Moses Brown " " " May 26, 1854 

811. Thomas D. Conover " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

812. Jerome Husted " " " Dec. 10, i860 

813. Edwin F. Strickland " " " June 1, 1854 

814. Ellen Smith " " " June 28, 1866 

815. Sarah Smith " " " 

816. Elizabeth Henderson (Mrs. James D. 

Smith) " " " April 24, 1871 

817. Huldah G. Brown " " " May 26, 1854 

818. Joseph Enscoe " " " Oct. 28, 1856 

819. Beulah Y. Terry (wid. Samuel) April 27, 1852 Oct. 8, 1862 

820. John A. Sterry " " " May i, 1865 

821. Charles E. Latimer " " " Dec. 7, 1852 

822. Frances Emeline Terry {Mrs. Oliver 

Barratt) " " " Mch. 14, 1894 

823. T. F. Tracy " " " Nov. 23, 1854 

824. Lydia D. Parker June 29, 1852 June 7, 1855 

825. James H. Grovestien " " " June 7, 1854 

826. Anna V. Grovestien (James H.) " " " June 7, 1854 

827. Mary McBride (wid. William) " " " Aug. 16, 1853 

828. Edgar J. Day " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

829. Richard Augustus Dorman " " " 

830. Maria Ritter {Mrs. John D. Manning). " " " June 10, 1897 

831. Sarah Wood (wid. Samuel) Aug. 31, 1852 Nov. 24, 1852 

832. Sarah Frances Benedict Dec. 28, 1852 Dec. 19, 1856 

833. Charlotte G. Conner " " " June 14, 1854 

834. John West Mch. 1, 1853 Mch. 15, 1859 

835. Langdon S. Ward " " " Oct. 9, 1854 

836. Isabella Draper (Henry) " " " Dec. 7, 1870 

837. Henry E. Staniford April 26, 1853 Mch. 4, 1856 

838. Patrick James Golden " " " June 26, 1855 

839. Mary Ann Golden (Patrick J.) " " " Sept. 4, 1855 

840. Maria Sumner (John) June 28, 1853 June 16, 1856 

841. Albert L. Comstock " " " Aug. 30, 1854 

842. Catharine N. Comstock (Albert L.).. " " " Aug. 30, 1854 

843. Sarah E. Reed (Jehiah) " " " Aug. 30, 1854 

844. Rachel Kimmons Aug. 30, 1853 Oct. 28, 1856 

845- Pliny F. Whiting " " " Oct. 11, 1864 

272 



Chronological List of Members 



No. Name. When 

846. William Corp Nov. 

847. Sarah Ann Corp (William) " 

848. Homer W. Keeler " 

849. William H. Colton " 

850. Ann Hartshorn (Philander) Dec. 

851. Curtis Boynton " 

852. Elizabeth G. Boynton " 

853. William B. Boynton " 

854. Samuel Holmes " 

855. William B. Holmes " 

856. John S. Gridley " 

857. Elizabeth Schapps (wid. Cornelius) ... " 

858. Camillus Farrand " 

859- Rebecca M. Snyder (John W.) " 

860. Eliza Jane Palmer (C. W.) Feb. 

861. Jeanette Ellen Mclntyre " 

862. Philinda P. Jones (Mrs. G. B. Cowper) " 

863. Joseph Greatbach " 

864. Edward Pratt May 

865. Sarah B. Pratt (wid. Edward) " 

866. Edmund W. Clark " 

867. Thomas E. Cornwall " 

868. Elizabeth Gilman Thompson (wid. 

Joseph P.) " 

869. Atnzi Lewis Camp " 

870. Amelia M. Girling (Robert) " 

871. Mary Jane Henderson " 

872. Edward Smith Ward June 

873. Catharine Matilda Peck (Benjamin) . " 

874. Jacob Brinkerhoff, Jr Oct. 

875. Susan Mayereau (Bernard A.) " 

876. Isaac W. Barnum " 

877. Jeanette Barnum (Isaac W.) " 

878. William H. Raymond " 

879. Louisa Hightieid " 

880. Mary Middleton (John) Jan. 

881. William Gilchrist " 

882. Levi A. Fuller Feb. 

883. Thomas Warriner " 

884. James Davis " 

885. Louise Jane Davis (wid. James) " 

886. William P. Tuttle " 

887. Abraham Van Tassel " 

888. Robert Rodger May 

889. Jane Shields Rodger (Robert) " 

890. Electa M. Sheldon (wid. Berthier M.) . " 

891. Sarah Smith (J. Gordon) " 

892. Charlotte Landsdown (James P.) " 

893. Isabella J. Camp (Mrs. Alonzo Austin) " 

894. Nathan Henry Camp " 

895. William Wood " 

896. William Montfort " 

897. Oliver S. Atkins " 

898. Henry W. Hulse " 

899. Margaret Salters (Mrs.) " 

273 



Received. 


When Removed. 


I, 1853 


Feb. 28, 


18S4 




Feb. 28, 


18^4 




Jan. 2, 


I8S7 


" " 


Sept. 14, 


18S4 


26, 1853 


Sept. 18, 


l8S7 




Oct. — 


i^S 


" " 


Mch. 8, 


I8S9 




Nov. 4, 


1856 




April 2, 


1870 


" " 


June 2, 


1870 




Mch. 18, 


I8S6 


" " 


Dec. 14, 


180^ 




July 22, 


1863 




June 8, 


. 


27, 1854 


Feb. 19, 






April 8, 


186I 




Jan. 20, 


TK60 


" " 


Dec. — , 


I8S7 


1, 1854 


April 4, 


i8bi 


" " 


June 5, 


1866 


" " 


Dec. II, 


i8« 


" " 


Nov. 13, 


1854 




Dec. 24, 


l8Q2 


" " 


Mch. 11, 


I8Q0 


" " 


Jan. 10, 


1807 


" " 


Aug. 29, 


18^4 


27, 1854 


Sept. 16, 


18^ 




April 15, 


I85Q 


31, 1854 


Dec. 21, 


180^ 




Dec. 25, 


T8^7 




Mch. 28, 


I8S7 


« « 


Mch. 28, 


T8^7 




May 20, 


1862 


" " 


Feb. 24, 


1KO1 


2, 1855 


July 12, 


1867 




Dec. 16, 


18^8 


27, 1855 


Nov. 26, 


18^9 




Oct. 4, 
Mch. 11, 




" " 


Dec. 8, 


1807 




Nov. 6, 


I8S7 


" " 


Mch. 8, 


1861 


1, i8S5 


Aug. 9, 


18^9 




Aug. 9, 


I8SQ 




June 13, 


i8;6 


" " 


Jan. 25, 


180 


" " 


April 9, 


I-v 


" " 


May 9, 


1871 


" " 


Sept. 27, 


1864 


" " 


Oct. 13, 


i8« 




Mch. 7, 


i8s8 


" " 


Jan. 25, 


I8S6 


" " 


Mch. 23, 


T8s8 


" " 


Oct. 25, 


I8S7 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

900. Edward B. Hatch June 26, 1855 June 29, 

901. James Bedford Aug. 28, 1855 Feb. 12, 

902. Frederick S. Boyd " " " Mch. 3, 

903. Hannah Bissell (wid. Samuel M.).... " " " Mch. 27, 

904. Margaret A. Curtis (Edwin) Oct. 30, 1855 Mch. 6, 

905. Charles A. Alden " " " April 25, 

906. Maria Owen (David) " " " June 20, 

907. Cornelia L. Turner (J. Hart) " " " April 14, 

908. M. Jeanette Farrand (Camillus) " " " Jan. n, 

909. Christina L. Link (Frederick) " " " 

910. Frederick Link " " ' 

911. Elizabeth Merritt {Andrew) " " " Oct. 4, 

912. David Robbins Dec. 31, 1855 July — , 

913. Relief Robbins (David) " " " Mch. 30, 

914. Anson Blake Feb. 26, 1856 Nov. 29, 

915. Mary C. Blake (Anson) " " " Nov. 29, 

916. Benjamin Barr " " " Aug. 5, 

917. William Henderson " " " Aug. 27, 1861 

918. Mary Ann Linton (wid. John) " " " Oct. 4, " 

919. Lydia Ann Cooper (Mrs. John Oata- 

lina) " " " Nov. 28, 

920. Sarah Thompson (John W.) April 29, 1856 May 11, 

921. Clementine D. Rutherford (Thomas) . " " " Nov. 8, 1862 

922. Henry C. Halsey " " " June 28, " ' 

923. Elizabeth Hal sey (Henry C.) " " " June 28, 

924. Amanda H. F. Hall (wid. Henry C.) . . " " " Jan. 24, 

925. Harriet Brewster " " " Mch. 9, 

926. Robert Allen " " " July — , 

927. Mary E. Wilbor (William H.) July i, 1856 Nov. 6, 

928. Hiram F. Beebe " " " April 14, 

929. Rebecca M. Beebe (Hiram F.) " " " April 14, 

930. William C. Hickok " " " April 14, 

931. Sarah E. Hickok (William C.) " " " April 14, 

932. Elizabeth P. Taylor " " " Oct. 2, 

933. Clement E. Beebe " " " Dec. 8, 

934. David N. Beebe " " " Oct. 20, 

935. Robert Ferguson " " " June 28, 

936. Mary Harding (James) " " " Mch. 25, 

937. Maria Connolly (James) Sept. 1, 1856 Jan. 17, 

938. Charles C. Converse " " " May 6, 

939- E. C. Benton Oct. 28, 1856 Mch. 6, 

940. Benjamin Howard " " " Jan. 30, 

941. Mary Brewster (Nathan) " " " July 17, 

942. Sarah Taylor (James) " " " Nov. 17, 

943. John Wightman " " " Mch. 26, 

944. John M. Grant " " " Oct. 28, 

945. Jesse Carpenter Dec. 30, 1856 Jan. 20, 

946. Abagail H. Carpenter (Jesse) " " " Jan. 20, 

947. Isabella D. Marsh (Joseph G.) " " " May 4, 

948. Thomas Jones " " " Feb. 24, 

949. Alvan H. Turner " " " Mch. 9, 

950. Mary G. Holmes (Samuel) " " " April 20, 

951- Franklin Stebbias " " " Dec. 28, 

952. George L. Allen " " " Oct. 16, 

953- Sarah W. Turner (wid. Abram H.) . . . Feb. 24, 1857 Dec. 15, 

274 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. 

954. Joshua B. Hall April 20, 1857 

955. David Fitch " " 

956. Levi M. Bates " " " 

957. Martha A. Bates {Levi M.) " " " 

958. Alonzo E. Austin " " " 

959. T. L. Snyder June 26, 1857 

960.' Julia L. Snyder (T. L.) " " 

961. Edwin S. Pierce " " " 

962. John W. Crane, Jr Aug. 28, 1857 

963. James G. Caldwell Oct. 23, 1857 

964. Eliza Caldwell (wid. James G.) " 

965. Wallace E. Caldwell " " " 

966. Corinth Caldwell (Wallace E.) " " " 

967. Julia Reed Davis (Samuel R.) Dec. 29, 1857 

968. Sarah Jane Peterson " " 

969. Rosetta M. Wright (wid. Isaac) " " " 

970. Mary C. West (William G.) " " " 

971. Seth W. Benedict " " " 

972. Anna Elizabeth Benedict (Seth W.).. " " " 

973. Sarah Frances Benedict (Mrs. Arthur 

T. Pierson) " " " 

974. Emily J. Benedict " " " 

975. William W. Ingersoll Mch. 1, 1858 

970. Mary Jane Ingersoll (Wm. W.) " " 

977. Sarah R. Fisher (Aaron A.) " " " 

978. Harriet Pond (wid. Lewis) " " " 

979. Harriet L. Pratt (Milo) " 

980. Fanny S. Eddy (wid. Hiram) " " " 

981. Horatio Underwood " " " 

982. Elizabeth M. A. Underwood (Horatio) " " " 

983. Robert Tovey " " " 

984. Aaron A. Fisher " " " 

985. Joel E. Fisher " " " 

986. Eliza Pooler {John W.) " " " 

987. Charles Henry Pratt " " " 

988. Austin Abbott April 27, 1858 

989. Ellen L. G. Abbott (Austin) " " " 

990. George L. Dale " " " 

991. Harriet B. Dale (George L.) " " 

992. Walter B. Sheldon " " " 

993. Mary M. Crehore (Horace C.) " " 

994. Henry M. Barrowes " " " 

995. Mary Jane Wilson (Mrs. Munson) . . . " " " 

996. Samuel P. Holmes " " " 

997. Eleanor A. Holmes (Samuel P.) " " " 

998. Robert Girling " " " 

999. William F. West " " " 

1000. Sarah M. Bowker {Mrs. Charles F. 
Rodgers) " " " 

1001. Mary 0. Davis " " " 

1002. Mary E. Starr {Mrs. Ward C. Pardee) " " " 

1003. Margaret Blackwood " " " 

1004. Robert H. Eddy " " " 

1005. Louisa Lockwood {Mrs. Casper H. 
Ritter) " " " 

275 



When Removed. 


Feb. 25, 


180s 


Oct. 4, 


i8v> 


Oct. 10, 


tKot 


June 18, 
Mch. 25, 


i8qo 


18SO 


Tune 29, 


i8s8 


June 29, 


18S8 


Feb. 22, 


TH07 


Mch. 8, 


i860 


Aug. 25, 


1864 


Dec. 13, 




Dec. 13, 




Dec. 13, 


1 804 


Dec. 27, 




Sept. 11, 


1861 


May 28, 


1 80b 


Aug. 21, 


[861 


Nov. 10, 


ISOQ 


Mch. 7, 


1872 


Aug. 28, 


i860 


Mch. 15, 


1871 


June 25, 


1862 


June 25, 


1862 


May 23, 


i860 


May — , 


1866 


June 26, 


iKof. 


July 9, 


1864 


Mch. 21, 


186s 


Mch. 21, 


186s 


April 27, 


186^ 


May 23, 


i8bo 


June 28, 


1861 


May 26, 


1880 


April 26, 


186^ 


Mch. 6, 


T806 


Mch. 6, 


1866 


Mch. 1, 


tX6t 


Mch. 1, 


1861 


April 9, 


1864 


June 11, 


t86o 


April 27, 


1864 


April 27, 


: 


Oct. 19, 


...;:■ 


Aug. 21, 


i860 


Jan. 7, 


l8 7 S 


Aug. 16, 


1862 


Feb. 5, 


1867 


Feb. — , 


1H68 


July -, 


1864 


May 3, 


1871 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



No. Name. When Received. 

1006. Flora W. Smith April 27, 1858 

1007. Ann Magee (Alexander) 

1008. Julia D. Halsey (Mrs. W. F. Brown) 

1009. Anna Ritter (Mrs. Anthony Lane) . . 

1010. George T. Cook 

101 1. Henry Heath 

1012. Israel Minor, Jr 

1013. John C. Minor 

1014. H. Maria Newcomb (Harvey) June 29, 1 

1015. C. Antoinette Bassett (William D.).. 

1016. Eliza Tovey (Robert) 

1017. Mary S. Taylor (Charles F.) 

1018. Caleb B. Knevals 

1019. Emeline Minor (wid. George) 

1020. Edwin Miner 

1021. Maria Elizabeth Miner 

1022. James H. Grovesteen 

1023. Anna V. Grovesteen (James H.) 

1024. Lafayette Ranney 

1025. Adaline E. Ranney (Lafayette) 

1026. Mary A. Ranney 

1027. Rufus O. Mason 

1028. Francis H. Holton 

1029. Anna M. Holton (Francis H.) 

1030. Sophia Kingman (wid. Willard) .... 

1031. Mary E. Allerton 

1032. Abagail Belden (wid. William) 

1033. Abagail B. Whelpley (wid. Samuel). 

1034. Frederick M. Robinson 

1035. Henry Clay Miner 

1036. Charles A. White 

1037. Willard W. White 

1038. Fannie E. Frisbie (Mrs. Henry 

Hayes) 

1039. Jane E. Van Arsdale 

1040. Mary A. Taylor (William) 

1041. Harriet Winship (Albert L.) 

1042. Aroline C. Hall 

1043. William W. Holder 

1044. Jonathan F. Morris 

1045. A. Stoyel Cady Aug. 31, 1858 

1046. Henry Hayes 

1047. Francis H. Kyte 

1048. Henry Baldwin 

1049. Harrison Parker 

1050. Susan A. Ramsdell (Ezra B.) 

1051. Richard G. Pardee Nov. 

1052. Rebecca C. Pardee (wid. Richard G.) 

1053. Ward C. Pardee 

1054. Cecilia Rumsey 

1055. Adon Smith 

1056. Louisa Smith (Adon) 

1057. Jeanette M. Huntington (wid. Selden) 

1058. Emily S. Huntington 

1059. Eliza M. Sylvester (Fordyce) 

276 



When Removed. 


Dec. 13, 




Jan. ii, 


1871 


Mch. 6, 


i86q 


April 23, 


1873 


Sept. 9, 


180Q 


Jan. 21, 


:8so 


Jan. 2i, 


18SQ 


Jan. 21, 


18SQ 


Mch. 3, 


t868 


Mch. 31, 


1870 


April 14, 


1864 


June 3, 


1803 


Jan. — , 


1862 


April 8, 


186^ 


April 8, 


180^ 


Oct. i, 


rW>2 


Oct. 1, 


1862 


Feb. is, 




Jan. 4, 


180s 


April 1, 




Feb. is, 


i860 


June 24, 




June 24, 


[86^ 


Feb. 2, 


[80S 


Nov. 19, 


I87S 


Dec. 24, 


861 


Dec. 24, 


86t 


Mch. 20, 


878 


Mch. 29, 


8qq 


June 3, 


86^ 


Aug. 4, 


880 


Jan. 12, 


866 


Jan. 7, 


86^ 


Jan. 2, 


87S 


July 1, 


86^ 


Dec. 21, 


- 


Nov. 28, 


8Q 4 


June 30, 


8=;8 


July 12, 


8q 7 


Jan. 12, 


Hfrfi 


Nov. 28, 


804 


Oct. 27, 


862 


April 19, 
Mch. 8, 


864 


w>i 


Feb. 14, 


86q 


Dec. 30, 


860 


Feb. 5, 


867 


Mch. 4, 


863 


May 29, 


872 


Jan. — , 


860 


May 4, 


870 


Nov. 15, 


87Q 


Jan. 28, 


m 



Chronological List of Members 



No. Name. When Received. 

1060. Mary K. Thompson (wid. Artemas 

E.) Nov. 1, 1858 

1061. Mary L. Thompson (Fred. F.) " " ' 

1062. James Seymour " " ' 

1063. Elizabeth St. John Seymour (Jas.).. " " " 

1064. Mary A. Hawley (wid. Aaron) " 

1065. Frances A. Hawley 

1066. Elijah C. Baldwin " " " 

1067. John Danforth " " 

1068. Mary Matilda Miller " " " 

1069. Walter Lipe " " " 

1070. Artemas E. Thompson " " " 

1071. Elisabeth Denham (Mrs. W. H. Has- 

kins) " " " 

1072. Emma Denham (Mrs. William H. 
Maynard) " " " 

1073. Martha E. Davisson " " " 

1074. Snowden R. Bayard Dec. 28, 1858 

1075. William Baldwin Fletcher " " " 

1076. John Hanson Thompson " " " 

1077. Julia Johnson (wid. George) Mch. 1, 1859 

1078. William W. Niles " " " 

1079- Isabel W. Niles (William W.) " " " 

1080. Edward Conner " " " 

1081. Susan J. Conner " " " 

1082. William L. Alden " " " 

1083. L. Almira Robbins " " " 

1084. Ellen Jones " " " 

1085. Elizabeth Everett (Thomas R.) " " " 

1086. Caroline H. Mclntyre (Mrs. David 
Weston) " " " 

1087. Sarah A. Pelton (Timothy D.) " " " 

1088. Anna Monell (Claudius L.) " " " 

1089. Simney Walley (Henry C.) April 26, 1859 

1090. Julia A. Janes (Mrs. David B. Sand- 
ford) " 

1091. Charles Gates " 

1092. Harriet P. R. White (Amos C.) " 

1093. Robert H. Robinson " 

1094. Mary C. Robinson (Robert H) " 

1095. Susan McGregor " 

1096. Oliver Barratt " 

1097. Amariah B. Vaughan " 

1098. Clara B. Jenkins (George W.) " 

1099. Francis B. Nicol " 

1 100. Clorinda B. Nicol (wid. Francis B.) . " 

1101. Maria C. Megary (Dennis) June 28, 1859 

1 102. David Chichester 

1103. Elisha Doolittle 

1104. Theresa Doolittle 

1 105. Charles Alfred Tyler 

1106. Cornelia F. Tyler (Charles A.) 

1 107. Mary Hyatt (Theodore) 

1108. Lucy Hayes (Horace) 

1109. Harriet H. Peters (wid. Absalom) . . . 

277 



When Removed. 
Nov. 28, 1894 



April 18, I 
Jan. 16, : 
April 25, 
Nov. 22, : 
June 30, 1 
Sept. 11, 1 

Feb. 26, 

Dec. 12, 1873 

Nov. 28, 1894 
April 27, i"' 
April 7, - 
Nov. 22, . 
Mch. 16, : 
Nov. 1, 
Mch. 29, iouy 
Mch. 29, 1869 
June 25, °" 
June 25, 
Nov. 26, 
May 4, , 
Feb. 13, 1 
Dec. 24, 



May 8, 
Aug. — , 
June 2, 
Mch. 9, 

April 22, : 
Mch. 1, 
Oct. 9, 

Dec. 9, 

May 8, 
Mch. 14, : 
April — , ; 
May 31, ] 
Jan. 3, i 
Dec. 24, i 
Oct. 27, ! 
Jan. 11, : 
Dec. 8, 
Dec. 8, 
Nov. 28, ] 
Nov. 28, i 
Sept. 29, j 
April 14, : 
May 27, 



1859 

:8?2 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed, 

mo. Mary Elizabeth Ward (Albert S.) . .June 28, 1859 Jan. 2, 1864 

mi. Robert A. Williams " " " May 8, i860 

1112. Catherine D. Williams (Robert A.). " " " May 8, i860 

1 113. Charles Kay Aug. 30, 1859 Mch. 1, 1864 

1114. John C. Taylor Nov. 1, 1859 Oct. 24, i860 

1115. Lewis Chichester " " " Aug. 29, 1867 

1 1 16. Clarissa Chichester " " " Aug. 29, 1867 

1 1 17. Sarah Chichester " " " April 27, 1863 

11 18. William Corrie " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1119. Isabella Corrie (William) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1 120. Celia Weston (Milton) " " " Oct. 2, 1866 

1121. Ellen W. Dorchester (Mrs. Rulliffson) " " " Oct. 17, 1865 

1122. Elizabeth H. Gale " " " June 17, 1868 

1123. Sarah Helen Gale " " " June 17, 1868 

1 124. Frances P. Sweet Dec. 27, 1859 Nov. 28, 1894 

1 125. William S. Adamson " " " June 28, 1861 

1 126. Margaret S. Gavitt (John E.) " " " Aug. 4, 1875 

1127. Amanda E. King (Thomas) " " " Feb. 10, 1869 

1128. Isaiah W. Sylvester " " " Jan. 18, 1865 

1129. Charles W. Opdyke " " " Jan. 7, 1863 

1 130. Zenas R. Hinckley Feb. 28, i860 June 2, 1864 

1131. Elizabeth R. Hinckley (wid. Zenas R.) " " " May 19, 1871 

1 132. Henry Hastings " " " Aug. 12, 1861 

1 133. Harriet E. Parker {Mrs. William L. 

Fisher) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1 134. Elizabeth L. Ellis {Mrs. Stanton) ... " " " April 5, 1865 

1 135. Margaret McCombs " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1 136. Edward Riggs May 1, i860 

1 137. Sarah B. Perry (Oliver H.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1138. William L. Fisher " " " May 15, 1867 

1 139. George Badger " " " April 15, 1862 

1 140. William Badger " " " June 11, 1867 

1141. Julia Meeker " " " Dec. 31, 1861 

1 142. Daniel O. Quimby " " " Dec. 5, 1865 

1143. Clara B. Quimby (Daniel O.) " " " Dec. 5, 1865 

1 144. Jane Ely (wid. Isaac S.) " " " May 6, 1874 

1145. James Talcott " " " April 18, 1880 

1 146. Hiram J. Fonda " " " Oct. 9, 1867 

1 147. Hanna White " " " 1879 

1148. Sarah Washburne (Joseph) " " " April 27, 1864 

1149. Charles Bell June 26, i860 May 27, 1868 

1150. Angelina A. Bell (Charles) " " " May 27, 1868 

1151. Mary M. Holmes (Mrs. Henry Mc- 
Gregor) " " " 

1152. Alanson Caswell " " " July 24, i860 

1 153. Mary Caswell (Alanson) " " " Mch. 25, 1868 

1154. Jeremiah Reeve " " " July 27, 1866 

1155. Mary Reeve (Jeremiah) " " " Aug. 19,1870 

1 156. Thomas W. Whittemore Aug. 28, i860 Mch. 6, 1866 

ii57- Atossa F. Whittemore (Thos. W.).. " " " Mch. 6, 1866 

1158. Susan F. Moses (Charles) " " " May I, 1872 

1159. Edmund L. Champlin " " " Mch. 29, 1869 

1 160. Lydia E. Allison (Mrs. David W. 

Sellec) Oct. 30, i860 April 7, 1886 

1 161. Mary L. Jackson " " " April I, 1868 

278 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

1162. Clarissa M. Badger (Milton) Oct. 30, i860 May 10, 1873 

1 163. Charles Whittemore " " " 

1164. Maria F. Whittemore (Charles) " " " 

1165. Agnes L. Littlejohn (wid. David) ... Jan. 4, 1861 Oct. 12, 1870 

1166. Rachel Erwin (wid. Richard) " " " Jan. 21, 1871 

1 167. Edward C. Merriam " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1 168. Stephen T. Gordon " " " May 12, 1876 

1 169. Adella J. Gordon (Stephen T.) " " " Jan. 4, 1871 

1170. Hamilton S. Gordon " " " 

1 171. Henrietta E. Talcott (James) " " " April 14, 1880 

1172. Francis Littlejohn " " " Oct. 12, 1870 

1173. Mary Carey (Thomas William) " " " 

1174. Guglielmo Gazani Feb. 26, 1861 June 8, 1868 

1175. Abner B. Holly " " " April 19, 1876 

1176. Theodore S. Pond " " " Aug. 31, 1867 

1177. Harriett Pond (Lewis A.) " " " June 26, 1866 

1178. Eliza C. Schriver (Thomas) " " " Mch. 25, 1868 

1 179. Jenny A. Hull (Calvin E.) " " " Jan. 18, 1865 

1180. Josiah C. Saxton " " " Feb. 2, 1887 

1181. Harriet Wright (Mrs. L. McBride) . " " " Mch. 4, 1863 

1 182. Charles T. Rodgers " " " Jan. 7, 1875 

1 183. Eunice Thompson " " " Mch. 26, 1866 

1 184. Nathaniel A. Boynton April 30, 1861 Dec. 2, 1863 

1185. Prudence W. Boynton " " " Dec. 2, 1863 

1186. Seth B. Hunt " " " April 20, 1880 

1 187. Frances P. Hunt (Seth B.) " " " Dec. 13, 1866 

1 188. Frances H. Hunt (Mrs. Julius Cat- 

lin, Jr.) " " " Dec. 17, 1868 

1 189. Edward H. Winslow " " " Mch. 3, 1868 

1 190. Helen A. Winslow (Edward H.).... " " " Mch. 3, 1868 

1191. William G. Lambert " " " Dec. 24, 1882 

1192. Sarah Lambert (William G.) " " " Dec. 31, 1875 

1193. Ellen L. Lambert " " " 

1 194. Edward W. Lambert " " " 

1195. Martha W. Lambert " " " 

1196. Sarah J. Sears (Henry P.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1 197. Mary H. Clark (Ezra, Jr.) " " " Jan. 12, 1866 

1198. Frances Clark " " " Jan. 12, 1866 

1 199. Mary J. Topping (Mrs. Harman Gar- 

retson) " " " Jan. 21, 1875 

1200. William H. Smith " " " July 28, 1892 

1201. Harriet T. Smith (William H.) " " " Mch. 11, 1882 

1202. Sarah H. C. Smith (Mrs. G. A. 

Chamberlain) " " " Jan. 21, 1875 

1203. O. Loretta Shafer (Abraham) " " " April 16, 1867 

1204. George F. Hall " " " Mch. 18, 1885 

1205. Henry C. Walley " " " July I, 1868 

1206. William O. Kimball July 1, 1861 July 14, 1862 

1207. Elizabeth A. Kimball " " " July 14, 1862 

1208. Lucy Seymour (Robert W.) " " " Nov. 30, 1870 

1209. Alfred North " " " Mch. 7, 1867 

1210. Lydia Bartlett (Phineas) " " " June 7, 1864 

1211. Isaac L. Wilde " " " April 17, 1873 

1212. Fanny Champlin (Edward L.) Aug. 27, 1861 Mch. 29, 1869 

1213. William H. Thomson " " " 

279 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. ' 

1214. Catharine S. Thompson (Wm. H.) . .Aug. 27, 1861 

1215. William H. Frazer 

1216. Kate Chandler (wid. Holmes Wilkin- 
son) 

1217. Normandus W. Thayer Oct. 29, 1861 

1218. Mary E. Thayer (Normandus W.).. 

1219. Joel A. Jennings 

1220. James A. Tindall 

1221. Amanda Tindall (James A.) 

1222. Jane Ives Washburn (John H.) 

1223. Bethia S. Arbuckle (wid. James) 

1224. Eliza A. Arbuckle 

1225. Sarah B. Arbuckle 

1226. William Allen 

1227. Charles Abernethy 

1228. Maria Abernethy (Charles) 

1229. Cornelia Abernethy 

1230. Elial F. Hall 

1231. George H. White 

1232. Rebecca W. White (George H.) 

1233. Elisha W. Chester 

1234. Catharine W. Chester (wid. Elisha 
W.) 

1235. Emily E. Chester (wid. Albert T. 
Battell) 

1236. Charles R. Harvey 

1237. Alpha R. Harvey (Charles R.) 

1238. Olive M. Harvey 

1239. Ellen M. Harvey (Mrs. Foote) 

1240. Willard Harvey 

1241. Sarah B. Harvey (Willard) 

1242. James W. Halsted 

1243. Benjamin K. Phelps 

1244. Hannah M. Phelps (Benjamin K.).. 

1245. Fannie B. Hyde 

1246. Elizabeth Hyde (wid. Jos. B.) 

1247. Sarah A. Southwayd (Stephen C.).. 

1248. Frances A. F. Sherwood 

1249. George F. Chester 

1250. Jane J. Chester (George F.) 

1251. Thomas Rigney 

1252. Chloe W. Rigney (Thomas) 

1253. Almira J. Rigney 

1254. Henrietta Roundey (Thomas) 

1255. Sarah M. Conover 

1256. Joel Blackmer 

1257. Elizabeth W. Blackmer 

1258. William A. Bronson 

1259. Sarah D. Bronson (William A.).... 

1260. James H. Dunham 

1261. John S. Cutter 

1262. Z. N. Bradbury 

1263. Catharine Danforth 

1264. Harriette Danforth 

1265. Philura Danforth 

280 



Chronological List of Members 



1266. 
1267. 
1268. 
1269. 

1270. 
1271. 
1272. 

1273- 
1274- 
1275- 
1276. 
1277- 
1278. 
1279. 
1280. 
1281. 
1282. 
1283. 
1284. 



1289. 
1290. 
1291. 
1292. 
1293- 
1294. 
1295- 
1296. 
1297. 
1298. 
1299. 
1300. 
1301. 
1302. 
1303- 
1304- 
1305- 
1306. 
1307- 
1308. 
1309. 
1310. 
13"- 
1312. 
1313- 
I3I4- 
1315- 
1316. 
1317- 
1318. 
1319. 



Name. When Received. 

Helen A. Smith (Harry D.) Oct. 29, 1861 

Sarah A. Pray (wid. Isaac C.) 

Eliza Judson (widow) 

Anna Maria Judson (Mrs. John J, 

Hannah) 

Charles W. Plyer .... 

Amos C. White 

Mary C. Arbuckle 

Sarah H. White (wid. Elijah H.) ... .Dec. 31 

Edward A. Rand 

Abigail Chamberlain (wid. Moses) . . 

Sarah P. Maghee (wid. John H.) 

Susan F. Jennings (wid. Joel J.) 

Jesse Joy 

Moores M. White 

Sophia A. White (Moores M.) 

Edward G. Bartlett 

Jane W. Bartlett (wid. Edward G.) . 

Thomas S. Berry 

Anna E. Berry (wid. Thomas S.) 

Mary E. Greenwood (mid. Henry B.) 

Cornelia C. Moore 

Henrietta A. Halsey (Harlan P.)... 

Henry Kirke White 

William Henry Bridgman Feb. 25, 1862 

Sarah Abbott Bridgman 

Edward M. Norwood 

Luther P. Fitch 

Matthew McDougall 

Susannah McDougall (Matthew).. 

Morris Roberts, Jr 

Mary R. Roberts (Morris, Jr.) 

Elizabeth B. Cooke (Mrs. Munroe) 
Ellen J. Huntington (Thomas T.) 

Emiline M. Northrup April 29, 1862 

Horace S. Taylor 

Eliza G. Taylor (Horace S.) 

Sarah F. Field (widow) 

William H. Haskins 

Robert W. Haskins 

Pierpont Isham 

Semantha S. Isham (Pierpont) 

Mary A. Isham (Mrs. Sartell Prentice) 

Leonard Hazeltine, Jr 

Emma Hazeltine (Leonard, Jr.) 

Joseph Gavit 

James Henry Smith 

Ellen R. Stowell 

William C. Gilman July 1, 1862 

Eliza Gilman (William C.) 

Nathan Camp 

Phebe W. Camp (Nathan) 

Henry G. Davis ' 

Eliza C. Knapp (Samuel) Oct. 28, 1862 

Jane Young 

281 



When Removed. 
Mcb. 13, 1872 
Mch. 13, 187a 
Nov. 28, 1894 

Nov. 28, 1894 
Nov. 28, 1894 
April 4, 1893 
Oct. 23, 1870 
May 6, 1870 
Dec. 19, 1865 
Nov. 17, 1867 
April 8, 1893 
June — , 1884 
May 12, 1862 
Nov. 30, 1890 
Mch. 28, 1867 
July 25, 1889 

Jan. 30, 1875 

Nov. 28, 1894 
Jan. 21, 1880 
June 10, 1866 
Jan. 17, 1868 
Oct. 21, 1874 
Dec. 9, 1870 
Feb. 20, 1866 
June 18, 1867 
Mch. 29, 1869 
Mch. 29, 1869 



Jan. 15, 1890 
Nov. 1, 1871 
Dec. 26, 1867 
May 21, 1884 
Feb. 17, 1876 
April 23, 1867 
Dec. 12, 1873 
Dec. 12, 1872 
May 10, 1872 
May 18, 1876 
Oct. 23, 1867 

Oct. 18, 1889 
May 15, 1887 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Jan. 22, 1863 
June 6, 1863 
Oct. 18, 1864 
Aug. 14, 1865 
Aug. 14, 1865 
June 13, 1877 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Nov. 14, 1864 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

1320. Nathaniel Fisher Oct. 28, 1862 Dec. 9, 1880 

1321. Mary Ann Fisher (wid. Nathaniel).. " " " Sept. 8, 1892 

1322. Sarah Fisher " " " June 19, 1891 

1323. Elizabeth R. Fisher " " " 

1324. Melissa Lipe (Walter) " " " 1898 

1325. Thomas G. Thurston " " " Feb. 23, 1884 

1326. Edward F. Farrand " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1327. Helen M. Lockwood {Mrs. Edward 

F. Farrand) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1328. William A. Cushman " " " June 11, 1867 

1329. Delia M. Johnson (wid. Edward C.) 

(Mrs. McMurtrie) " " " July 7, 1881 

1330. Susan C. Ray (Edwin C.) " " " Feb. 18, 1868 

1331. Hannah Ferand (Gustave J.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1332. Margaret Chandler " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1333. Henry B. Underwood Dec. 30, 1862 Oct. 13, 1863 

1334. James Edmonds " " " Mch. 7, 1873 

1335- Margaret Edmonds (James) " " " Aug. 3, 1892 

1336. William A. Dodge " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

1337- Jeannie G. Dodge (William A.) " " " Oct. 31, 1867 

1338. Josephine C. Wheat " " " Mch. 26, 1871 

1339- Agnes W. Littlejohn (Mrs. Alex- 
ander) " " " Oct. 23, 1867 

1340. Samuel B. Littlejohn " " " Oct. 31, 1883 

1341. Lyman B. Bunnell " " " July 21, 1870 

1342. William N. Jennings " " " June 15, 1887 

1343- Catherine J. Holly (Abner B.) Feb. 24, 1863 April 19, 1876 

1344. Ambrose Leonard " " " Nov. 27, 1867 

1345. John Edwards " " " Mch. 27, 1868 

1346. Mary Thomas " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1347- William E. Gavit " " " 

1348. Meta Gavit (Mrs. John Q. Adams) .. " " " Sept. 22, 1875 

1349. Lucy B. Thompson (Mrs. Seth B. 

Hunt) " " " Dec. 5. 1883 

1350. Honoria E. Hooker (Nathaniel W.) . " " " Nov. 25, 1889 

1351. Adoniram Judson Rich April 28, 1863 Mch. 16, 1864 

1352. Mary H. Gray " " " 

1353- Joseph P. Snow " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1354. Minerva B. Snow (Joseph P.) " " " April 25, 1863 

1355. Isabel M. Ames " " " May 28, 1890 

1356. Joanna L. Holmes (Daniel) " " " July 21, 1869 

1357- Robert L. Hall " " " Sept. 26, 1880 

1358. Martha Hall (Robert L.) " " " Sept. 5, 1878 

1359- Charles L. Hall " " " May 18, 1875 

1360. David Anson Hedges " " " Dec. 6, 1875 

1361. George Goodwin Hall " " " Dec. 30, 1869 

1362. M. Elizabeth Hall (George G.) " " " Dec. 30, 1869 

1363. Sophia M. Proudfoot (Mrs. John 

Ferguson) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1364. Charles H. Clark " " " Jan. 12, 1866 

1365. Frances Louise Girling " " " Oct. 19, 1887 

1366. A. Jeanette McDougall " " " Mch. 29, 1869 

1367. Julia T. Mills (S. D.) June 30, 1863 April 14, 1869 

1368. Adele Mills " " " April 14, 1869 

1369. Israel H. Geary " " " Nov. 1, 1865 

282 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

1370. Josephine M. Geary (Israel H.) June 30, 1863 Nov. i, 1865 

1371- Frances Hackley (Caleb B.) " " " Feb. 27, 1878 

1372. Benjamin F. Millerd " " " Oct. 25, 1864 

1373- Frances E. Millerd (Benjamin F.) . . " " " Oct. 25, 1864 

1374. Ambrose L. Ranney " " " Dec. 6, 1888 

1375- Agnes C. Parker {Mrs. Samuel 0. 

Burtt) " " " Aug. 6, 1873 

1376. Simeon Hackley Oct. 27, 1863 Feb. 16, 1864 

1377. Chauncey L. Hamlin " " " Aug. 14, 1865 

1378. Walter Pardee " " " 

1379. Almira M. Pardee (Walter) " " " Sept. 17, 1896 

1380. Charles Durfee " " " Nov. I, 1871 

1381. Adelpha S. Durfee (Charles) " " " Nov. 4. 1871 

1382. Lucy M. Hellish (wid. Daniel B.)... " " " Oct. 25, 1876 

1383. Jeremiah G. Sugar " " " Feb. S, 1873 

1384. Harriet N. Sugar (Jeremiah G.) " " " Feb. 5, 1873 

1385. Harriet N. Sugar " " " Feb. 5, 1873 

1386. Amelia M. Sugar (Mrs. John French) " " " Jan. 5, 1876 

1387. Frances A. Sugar (Mrs. William 

Wallace Howland) " " " Jan. 2, 1875 

1388. Caroline Bloomingdale (David) " " " June 10, 1868 

1389. John H. Evans " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1390. Elijah Herman Smith " " " June 10, 1868 

1391. Samuel St. John Smith " " " Feb. 5, 1870 

1392. Darid Bloomingdale " " " June 10, 1868 

1393. Philo F. Lavans Dec. 29, 1863 Nov. 28, 1894 

1394. Joseph F. Gaylord " " " June 9, 1873 

1395. Charles C. Watson " " " June 19, 1889 

1396. Wilson T. Potter " " " May 2, 1880 

1397. Cynthia L. Potter (wid. Wilson T.). " " " Jan. 24, 1885 

1398. Absalom Peters " " " May 18, 1869 

1399. Hannah B. Smith " " " Aug. — , 1891 

1400. Sarah M. Brown {wid. Samuel H.) . " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1401. Mary R. Dempsey " " " Sept. 21, 1897 

1402. William D. Moore " " " Oct. 7, 1883 

1403. Rhoda Jane Smith {Darius A.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1404. Amelia Gray {Mrs. J. F. Harman) . . " " " Feb. 8, 1882 

1405. Elisabeth Connolly " " " Jan. 5, 1898 

1406. Henry L. Boltwood Mch. I, 1864 Oct. 24, 1865 

1407. Helen E. Boltwood " " " Oct. 24, 1865 

1408. Joel E. Fisher " " " 

1409. Harriet L. Dunham (James H.) " " " Nov. 22, 1879 

1410. Henry M. Field " " " Mch. 7, 1867 

141 1. Lydia Morgie Field {Henry M.) " " " Mch. 7, 1867 

1412. Harriet T. Storrs April 26, 1864 Died. No date 

1413. Jane S. Hatch (William B.) " " " Jan. 6, 1876 

1414. Sarah C. Pickering (Thomas A.)... " " " July 7, 1875 

1415. Hannah Van Dyne " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1416. William M. Chamberlain April 28, 1864 Jan. 5, 1876 

1417. Susan E. Chamberlain (Wm. M.)... " " " Jan. 5, 1876 

1418. George Gillie " " " Feb. 24, 1897 

1419. James Taylor " " " Oct. 17, 1877 

1420. Olivia M. Taylor (wid. James) " " " 

1421. Sarah P. Lambert {Mrs. Charles H. 

Leeds) " " " April 17, 1889 

283 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



1422. 
1423. 
1424. 
1425. 
1426. 
1427. 



1431- 
1432. 

1433- 
1434- 
I43S. 
1436. 
1437- 
1438. 
1439- 
1440. 
1441. 
1442. 
1443- 
1444- 
1445- 
1446. 
1447. 
1448. 
1449. 
1450. 
I4SI- 
1452. 
1453- 
1454- 
1455- 
1456. 
1457- 
1458. 
1459- 
1460. 
1461. 
1462. 
1463- 
1464. 
1465- 
1466. 
1467. 



1472. 
1473- 
1474- 
1475- 



Name. When Received. When Removed. 

JohnA.Magee April 28, 1864 Nov. 28, " 

Caleb B. Hackley " " " Feb. 27, 

Isabella Gillie (George) " " " Feb. 24, 

William Gray " " " June 21, io y3 

Harriet Gray (wid. William) " " " April 3, 1897 

Agnes Henry June 28, 1864 May n, 1868 

Edward B. Finch " " " Oct. 9, 1879 

Amelia J. Finch (Edward B.) " " " Oct. 9, 1879 

Sarah L. Shannon (wid. Horatio N.) 

(Mrs. John Hanvelman) Nov. 1, 1864 Oct. 17, :"' 

Mary A. Williams " " " Nov. 22, 

John C. Staples " " " May 27, 

Martha A. Pember (Henry H.) " " " Mch. 10, 1 

Hattie E. Plyer (Charles W.) " " " Jan. 18, ] 

Cyrus S. Minor " " " May 18, 

Catherine R. Minor (Cyrus S.) " " " May 18, 

Jane M. Merrill (wid. James) " " 

William F. Barnard " " " Dec. 4, 

William H. Teal " " " Feb. 28, 

William E. Locke " " " Dec. 18, 

Julius L. Danner " " " Sept. 9, 

Flora L. Minor (Mrs. Thos. L. Miller) " " " Jan. 28, 

Thomas Logan Dec. 27, 1864 Mch. 20, ] 

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott " " " Mch. 6, 

Elizabeth T. Abbott (Benjamin V.) . . " " " Mch. 6, 

Caroline A. Seely (Charles) " ' " Oct. 9, 

Richard H. Gidman " " " Oct. 2, 

Cassius M. Gilbert " " " Nov. 28, 

Daniel W. Fox " " " Jan. 12, 

Mary H. Holmes (William B.) " " " June 2, 

Sarah Benton (E. C.) " " " Mch. 6, : 

Mary Titcomb " " " Mch. 6, 

Sophia C. Rand (Albert T.) Feb. 28, 1865 June 15, 

Helen D. Pitts (Jesse G.) " " "- April 27, 1 

Hannah C. Hathaway (wid. Thos. E.) " " " April I, 

Henrietta K. Hollister (Samuel W.). " " " Feb. 7, 

Charles E. Whitehead " " " Jan. 30, 

Rachel T. Whitehead (Charles E.).. " " " Jan. 30, : 

Annie W. Palmer (Herbert F.) " " " 

Joseph Parker, Jr " " " Oct. 2, 

Elizabeth Day " " " Feb. 5, 

James Bigelow " " ' Aug. 14, „,*. 

Clarissa T. Rockwell (wid. Theron).May 1, 1865 Aug. — , 1877 

Horatio B. Howe " " " Oct. 12, 1870 

Martha B. Howe (Horatio B.) " " " Oct. 12, " 

Evelyn M. Hall (Elial F.) " " " May 8, 

Mary C. Pel ton (Guy R.) " " " Nov. 11, 1000 

Mosely H. Williams " " " Mch. 27, 1866 

John Henry Washburn June 27, 1865 

Jonathan Bowers Slade " " " June 17, : 

Lucinda Reed (Wilson D.) " " " Nov. 28, : 

John Kershaw Aug. 29, 1865 June 17, 1 

Amelia F. Kershaw (John) " " " June 17, 

Albert F. Monroe " " " June 30, 

William C. Witter Oct. 21, 1865 Dec. 31, 



Chronological List of Members 



1476. 

1477- 

1478. 

1479- 
1480. 
I4SI. 
1482. 
1483. 
1484. 
1485. 
i486. 
1487. 
1488. 
1489. 
1490. 
1491. 
1492. 
1493. 
1494. 

1495- 
1496. 

1497- 

1498. 
I499- 

1500. 
1501. 
1502. 
1503- 
1504. 
1505- 
1506. 
1507. 
1508. 
I509- 
1510. 
1511. 



ISIS- 
1 5 16. 
ISI7- 
1518. 
ISI9- 
1520. 
1521. 
1522. 
1523- 
1524- 
1525. 
1526. 
1527. 
1528. 



Daniel B. Dudley 

Joseph Angwin 

Emma Eve Smith 

Herbert A. Loring 

Joseph Rochester 

John P. De Meritt Jan. 

Jennie V. Bunnell (Lyman B.) " 

William Henry Walcott 

Allen Page Bissell 

Mary C. Haviland (Charles) 

James B. Thomson 

Mary C. Thomson 

Edward Noyes Pomeroy 

Charles Van Norden 

John G. Hitchcock 

Annie L. Hitchcock 

Arthur Bates Jennings 

Margaret Williams 

Mortimer Smith 

Gertrude E. Forbes 

Anna Smith 

Ida May Morse (Mrs. Henry Eyre 

Browne) 

Charles P. Blanchard 

Mary E. Lyon (Mrs. Theodore G. 

Wright) Feb. 27, 

Mary B. Robinson (Fred. M.) " 

Margaret McDonald (wid. Thos. R.) 

Alexander Huntington Clapp 

Emily P. Clapp (Alexander H.) 

Elizabeth M. Owen (wid. Thomas) . . 

Elizabeth C. Ward 

William August Scharlan 

Maria Burt (Mrs. Robt. W. Haskins) 

Edgar W. Moore 

Clarissa E. T. Moore (Edgar W.) . . 

Antoinette Camp (Amzi Lewis) 

Martin Luther Stowell April 10, 1866 

Sarah K. Partridge (James H.) " 

John Quincy Adams 

Ada W. Adams (John Q.) 

Albert H. Olmsted 

Nathaniel B. Emerson 

Slocum Wright 

Caroline L. Wright (Slocum) 

S. Josephine Hall (Mrs. Wm.Burdon) 

Charles Augustus Durfee 

Mary A. Col ton (Erastus) 

Samuel P. Putnam 

Jennie S. Putnam (Samuel P.) 

Ralph Lillie 

Corneluett Smith (Harlan P.) 

Ancoletta Morse (Daniel P.) 

Mary O. Gale 

Phoebe Gale 



When Removed. 
April 24, 1884 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Mch. 19, 1868 
Aug. 25, 1875 
Dec. 26, 1865 
May 26, 1870 
July 21, 1870 
May 6, 1870 
April 22, 1869 
Mch. 24, 1897 
June 7, 1869 
June 7, 1869 
Nov. 26, 1873 
Nov. 9, 1866 
Jan. 28, 1868 
Jan. 28, 1868 
Dec. 7, 1881 
April 22, 1868 
June 20, 1888 
Oct. 21, 1874 
Mch. — , 1872 

April 10, 1878 
Nov. 27, 1867 

May 15, 1872 
Mch. 20, 1878 
Dec. 12, 1883 
April 27, 1899 



Jan. 28, 1891 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Dec. 12, 1873 
Oct. 25, 1871 
Oct. 25, 1871 
Mch. 11, 1890 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Nov. 8, 1871 
May 21, 1867 
May 21, 1867 
May 27, 1868 
Died. No date 
April 27, 1881 
April 27, 1881 
Feb. 23, 1876 
Sept. 10, 1873 
Oct. 11, 1871 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Oct. 28, 1870 

Died. No date 
June 17, 1868 
June 17, 1868 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

1529. John Chandler Partridge April 10, 1866 Nov. 28, 1894 

1530. Mary R. Gunn " " " April 16, 1867 

1531. Melanie B. Durfee " " " Nov. 25, 1868 

1532. William H. Pratt " " " June 26, 1866 

1533- Fanny Isabel Reeve " " " Aug. 19, 1870 

1534. Elizabeth Bridge " " " May 11, 1873 

1535. Elizabeth C. Ward (wid. Frederick) . " " " Nov. 19, 1888 

1536. Mary Rebecca Pardee June 26, 1866 Dec. 17, 1868 

1537. Mary Magdalene Hart {Mrs. Taube) " " " June 27, 1885 

1538. Anne Elizabeth Shepard (Alex. W.) " " " Oct. 9, 1867 

1539. Charles H. Leeds " " " April 17, 1889 

1540. Frances W. Foote (wid. E. Hubert). Oct. 30, 1866 

1541. Caroline F. Fuller (Edward P.) " " " Oct. 22, 1873 

1542. Edward P. Fuller " " " Oct. 22, 1873 

1543. Rebecca Downey (John) " " " Oct. 21, 1884 

1544. Ann Jane M agee " " " Jan. 11, 1871 

1545. Edward P. Salmon , Dec. 26, 1866 Dec. 10, 1867 

1546. Daniel C. Ripley " " " Died. No date 

1547. Sarah B. Ripley (wid. Daniel C.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1548. Louisa F. Johnson (Mrs. James Un- 

derhill) (Mrs. John H. Wheeler)... " " " Feb. 16, 1881 

1549. John Downey " " " April 17, 1895 

1550. Julia Bennett (Edwin) Feb. 26,1867 May 1, 1872 

1551. Clark Bell " " " Mch. 31, 1897 

1552. Helene S. Bell (Clark) " " " Mch. 31, 1897 

1553- Crissie C. Bradley (Bradford D.) .. .April 30, 1867 May 29, 1872 

1554. Mrs. Elizabeth Fahnestock " " " April 27, 1868 

1555. Mary C. Fahnestock " " " April 27, 1868 

1556. Horace A. Foote " " " 

1557. Emily K. Foote (Horace A.) " " " July 21, 1896 

1558. George B. Hanna " " " Nov. 10, 1873 

1559. George W. Potter " " " May 6, 1869 

1560. Chauncey P. Fitch " " " May 19, 1888 

1561. Emma L. Fitch (Chauncey P.) " " " 

1562. Jennie H. Fitch (Mrs. Chas. Folsom) " " " 

1563. William Carey Taylor " " " Oct. 8, 1868 

1564. Sarah Pirnie Schenck (Mrs. Francis 

KalbHeisch) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1565. Mary E. Minor " " " May 18, 1876 

1566. Alice Gordon (Mrs. Wm. Plested) . . " " " April 11, 1877 

1567. Kate Gordon (Mrs. Milnor Wiley) .. " " " Jan. 24, 1894 

1568. Sarah H. Gordon (Mrs. Fred. Link) . " " " Jan. 19, 1891 

1569. Minnie Townsend (Mrs. Orestes A. 

B. Senter) " " " July 21, 1870 

1570. Lucy A. Bissell (Allen Page) July 2, 1867 April 22, 1869 

1571. Henry B. Felt " " " Nov. 29, 1874 

1572. George M. Dickinson " " " Jan. 18, 1899 

l 573- Lucy Draper White (Mrs. William 

E. Rice) " " " Nov. 29, 1899 

1574. Rosetta M. Wright (Mrs. Charles 

Thorpe) " " " Sept. 10, 1879 

1575- George Frederick Stone " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1576. Phillie B. Clark (George H.) " " " April 11, 1891 

1577- Omi Sidney Starr " " " April 14, 1869 

1578. Clymne R. Hatch Oct. 29, 1867 Feb. 27, 1878 



Chronological List of Members 



No. Name. When R 

1579. Frederick A. Hatch Oct. 2< 

1580. Lizzie R. Hatch (Albert J.) " 

1581. Catherine H. Ranney (Lafayette)... " 

1582. Raymond Scudder " 

1583. Catherine G. Winterburn (Charles). " . 

1584. George William Winterburn " 

1585. Arthur Wellington Tyler " 

1580. Isaac W. Barnum " 

1587. Jeanette Barnum (Isaac W.) " 

1588. Ray Palmer " 

1589. Ann M. Palmer (Ray) " 

1590. Harriet S. Palmer " 

1591. Maria W. Palmer " 

1592. Mrs. Maria Richardson " 

1593. Stephen Hubbell " 

1594. Sarah C. Barton (Mrs. Turner) " 

1595. Sarah Lodernia Bradley " 

1590. Louise Buist (Andrew) " 

1597. Susan Isabella Morgan " 

1598. Daniel P. Morse " 

1599. Theodore G. Wright Dec. 31, 1867 

1000. Thomas W. Whittemore " " 

1601. Atossa F. Whittemore (wid. Thom- 
as W.) " " 

1602. Arthur D. Whittemore " " 

1603. Francis A. Palmer " " 

1604. Susannah S. Palmer (Francis A.).. " " 

1605. Isabella Frances Pinkerton (Mrs. M. 
D. Barnes) " " 

1606. William Morton " " 

1607. Mary Thompson Morton (wid. Wm.) " " 

1608. Violetta I. Percy " " 

1609. Myron S. Dudley " " 

1610. Moses H. Kittredge Feb. 25, 

1611. Joseph D. Hull , " " 

1612. Mary S. Janes " " 

1613. Henry M. Boies " " 

1614. Margaret Boies (Henry M.) " " 

1615. Charles C. Waite " " 

1616. Julia B. Waite (wid. Charles C.) " " 

1617. Henry F. Anderson " " 

1618. Isabella F. Anderson (Henry F.)... " " 

1619. lames Underhill " " 

1620. Susannah Hamilton (wid. John R.) . " " 

1621. Augusta Pur gold " " 

1622. Willard Gould Cowell " " 

1623. Sarah Ann Pinkerton (Mrs. Everett) " " 

1624. Henry Moore April 29, 

1625. Cynthia A. Child (wid. Marcus) " 

1626. Nelson S. Carpenter " " 

1627. Samuel Burnham " " 

1628. Mary A. Burnham (Samuel) " " 

1629. Florence S. Burnham (Mrs. Lewis H. 
Austin) " " 

1630. Catherine Fowlie (William) " " 

287 



1897 
1880 
1873 
1873 
1870 
1870 
1870 
1870 
1870 
1894 
1870 



1872 



When Removed. 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Feb. 27, " 
Dec. 26, 
April 14, j 
Jan. 9, 
Mch. 31, 
Oct. 26, 
Feb. 13, 
Feb. 13, 
Oct. 12, ] 
Oct. 12, 
Oct. 12, 
Oct. 12, 
Oct. 12, : 
Nov. 28, : 
Jan, 21, : 
Nov. 28, 
Aug. — , 
Nov. 28, 
Died. No date 
May 15, 
July 23, 



Feb. 20, 
Nov. 23, 

April 4, 

April 11, ] 

May 28, ] 
Nov. 28, 
Dec. 31, 
Sept. 20, : 
Nov. 28, : 
Mch. 7, 

Dec. 1, 
Dec. 1, 
Feb. 3, 

Feb. 27, 
Feb. 27, 
Aug. — , 
Sept. 29, 
Nov. 28, 
Nov. 2, 
June 2, 
May 2, 
June 28, 
Nov. 28, 
Aug. 6, 
Aug. 6, 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

1631. Robert Swinton April 29, 1868 Oct. 9, 1873 

1632. Christina Swinton (Robert) " " " Oct. 9, 1873 

1633. Huldah L. Bates (Mrs. Charles D. 

Lane) " " " Mch. io, 1875 

1634. Samuel W. Hollister " " " Feb. 7, 187a 

1635. Sarah Bailey {wid. Startford C. H.) . " " " April 2, 1887 

1636. Elias S. Peck " " " Dec. 27, 1871 

1637. Jennie A. Carey {Mrs. Cyrus W. 

Minor) " " " Jan. 14, 1885 

1638. Payson W. Lyman Feb. 25, 1868 July 19, 1871 

1639. Mary P. Selchow (Elisha G.) July 1, 1868 June 7, 1871 

1640. Mary Lougee (wid. John L.) " " " 

1641. John Nathan White " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1642. Antoinette Williams {Horace) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1643. Sophronia Stone Oct. 28, 1868 1883 

1644. William H. Faxon " " " 

1645. Henry C. Robinson " " " Mch. 31, 1880 

1646. Celinda Robinson (Henry C.) " " " Mch. 31, 1880 

1647. S. Otis Livingston " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1648. S. Helen Livingston (S. Otis) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1649- Walter P. Beers " " " Oct. 13, 1869 

1650. Rosetta E. Oakley {Mrs. Herbert A. 

Loring) " " " Aug. 25, 1875 

1651. Addie Virginia Lane " " " Nov. 20, 1869 

1652. Samuel A. Bacon Dec. 30,1868 April 5, 1879 

1653. Asa A. Spear " " " Jan. 18, 1871 

1654. Henry H. Thompson " " " May 2, 1875 

1655. Carrie V. Thompson (Henry H.)... " " " May 2, 1875 

1656. Charles C. Harrah " " " July 6, 1870 

1657- Sarah E. M. Harrah (Charles C.)... " " " April — , 1869 

1658. Levi D. Jones " " " Dec. 15, 1880 

1659. M. C. Jones (Levi D.) " " " Dec. 15, 1880 

1660. James T. Leavitt " " " Nov. 5, 1894 

1661. Sarah B. Leavitt (James T.) " " " 

1662. J. Clarke Thomas " " " 

1663. Alice Gray {Mrs. W. W. Clay) " " " 

1664. Samuel D. Magee " " " Jan. 11, 1871 

6165. John R. Downey " " " Mch. 15, 1899 

1666. George E. Doolittle " " " Dec. 8, 1869 

1667. Charles H. Ranney " " " Feb. 15, 1897 

1668. William Ives Washburn " " " 

1669. Emmerson Pratt Jennings " " " Mch. 10, 1875 

1670. Martha Waldron (wid. Samuel W.).Mch. 3, 1869 Sept. 27, 1882 

1671. Mary W .Waldron " " " April 22, 1885 

1672. Lewis J. Mulford " " " Mch. 7. 1888 

1673. Carrie T. Mulford (wid. Lewis J.).. " " " Mch. 7, 1888 

1674. Edmund A. Smith " " " Feb. 24, 1876 

1675. Emily A. Smith {zvid. Edmund A.).. " " " Aug. 25, 1900 

1676. Lucy C. Middleton {wid. Charles) ... " " " April 24, 1871 

1677. Mary Frances Miles {Charles W.) . . " " " Oct. 21, 1874 

1678. Ernest Robert Hall " " " Mch. 20, 1878 

1679. Henry W. Carey " " " Mch. 15, 1882 

1680. Edward Dix Fisher " " " 

1681. Mary L. Fisher {Mrs. John R. 
Downey) " " " 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

1682. Ellen Gordon Mch. 3, 1869 May 12, 1876 

1683. Ferdinand A. Feraud " " " April 7 1881 

1684. Edgar M. Smith April 28, 1869 

1685. Amanda D. Smith (Edgar M.) " " " July 10, 1897 

1686. Frederick E. Coffin " " " 

1687. William Clift, Jr " " " 

1688. Mary E. Walker (William) " " " 

1689. Martha Ellis (Mrs. Tom Coleman) .. " " " Nov. 28, : 

1690. Edward T. Henry " ' " Nov. 28, 

1691. Augusta E. Henry " " " Nov. 28, 

1692. James Gillie " " " Jan. 8, 

1693. Otis Field, Jr " " " Nov. 28, 1 

1694. Nellie Frances Miles " " " Oct. 21, 1 . . 

1695. Mary Taylor (Mrs. Lewis W. Har- 
rington) " " " 

1696. Elizabeth M. McDonald (wid. John 

G.) " " " Mch. 2, 1898 

1697. Caroline E. Tyler (Mrs.) June 30, 1869 Jan. 24, 1872 

1698. Caroline C. Tyler (Mrs. Lincoln) " " " Jan. 24, 1872 

1699. Anna H. Tyler " " " Jan. 24, 1872 

1700. Abbie Louise Lyon " " " June 10, 1870 

1701. Elizabeth G. Dudley (Daniel B.).... " " " 

1702. Henry Littlejohn " " " Oct. 12, 1870 

1703. Louis Fellows " " " Oct. 25, 1876 

1704. Mary K. Thompson (Mrs. William 

H. Whittaker) Nov. 3, 1869 April 30, 1884 

1705. Charlotte V. Hutchings (Mrs. George 

W.Winterbum) " " " Mch. 31, 1897 

1706. Reuben B. Pool " " " April 6, 1895 

1707. Celia L. Weston (wid. Milton L.).. .Dec. 29, 1869 Mch. 20, 1878 

1708. Lizzie C. Weston " " " Mch. 28, 1878 

1709. C. B. Curtis (Mrs.) " " " 

1710. Joseph A. Shoudy " " " Sept. 9, 1875 

171 1. Caroline T. Shoudy (Joseph A.) " " " Sept. 9, 1875 

1712. Thomas P. Ellis " " " Dec. 12, 1872 

1713. Emily W. Ellis (Thomas P.) " " " Dec. 12, 1872 

1714. Sarah M. Abernathy (wid. Charles) . " " " 

1715. Jennie Helen Weston (Mrs. Ernest 

R. Hall) " " " ■ Mch. 20, 1878 

1716. Emily A. Harrington (Mrs. Scott) . . " " * Jan. 20, 1886 
1716^. Virginia Vincent " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1717. Joseph S. Case Mch. 2, 1870 May 9, 1894 

1718. Mary G. Case (Joseph S.) " " " May 9, 1894 

1719. Mary A. Reynolds " " " Oct. 12, 18S1 

1720. Mary Evaline McDonald " " " 

1721. Franklin B. Mirick April 27, 1870 May 5, 1889 

1722. Lucy E. Mirick (Franklin B.) " " " 

1723. William Westerfield, Jr June 29, 1870 Oct. 4, 1871 

1724. Barbara Fox (Leander) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1725. Cyrus W. Minor " " " Jan. 14, 1885 

1726. Edward H. Minor " " " Died. No date 

1727. Josiah D. Evans " " " 

1728. Frederick R. Marvin Nov. 2, 1870 April 15, 1875 

1729. Frances E. Pool (Reuben B.) " " " Dec. 7, 1894 

1730. Eliza A. Dailey (Mrs.) " " " April 24, 1880 

289 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

1731. Elizabeth A. Dailey Nov. 2, 1870 Feb. 3, 1897 

1732. Miles B. Jones " " " June 7, 1871 

1733. Julia W. H. George " " " 1889 

1734. Timothy W. Warren " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1735. Catherine Devoe (wid. James B.)... " " " May 6, 1874 

1736. Charlotte Haws " " " Oct. 24, 1894 

1737. Lewis W. Harrington Dec. 28, 1870 

1738. James Herbert Smith " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1739. Henrietta Smith (James H.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1740. Johanna Andrews (Jacob) " " " Oct. 31, 1877 

1 741. Marshall O. Roberts " " " Sept. 11, 1880 

1742. Caroline D. Roberts (Marshall O.).. " " " Dec. 12, 1874 

1743. George W. Weld " " " 

1744. Mary Oliver " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1745. Louise Miller (Charles) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1746. Wilhelmina Smith (wid. John M.) . . " " " Jan. 9, 1878 

1747. Christina Kerr {wid. William) " " " Sept. 2, 1872 

1748. Rosetta Guttmann (wid. Nicholas) . . " " " May 2, 1877 

1749. Katie Bruggemann " " " April 11, 1877 

1750. Edmund E. Charles Mch. 1, 1871 Oct. io, 1872 

1751. Austin Abbott " " " April 19, 1896 

1752. Ellen L. G. Abbott (Austin) " " " Dec. 28, 1877 

1753- Wilhelmina M. Smith " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1754. Elizabeth Gropenstein (John) " " " April 11, 1877 

1755. Catherine Herbst (wid. Fred) " " " April n, 1877 

1756. Mary Johanna Astor " " " May 2, 1877 

*757- Samuel Franklin Jones " " " June 26, 1872 

1758. Jane M. Beach (wid. William) " " " April 11, 1877 

1759. Sarah E. Conklin (Abraham V.) " " " April 11, 1877 

1760. Alfrederick S. Hatch May 3, 1871 Mch. 20, 1895 

1761. Theodosia Hatch (Alfrederick S.) . . " " " Mch. 20, 1895 

1762. George P. Stillman " " " July 26, 1891 

1763. Elizabeth T. Stillman (George P.).. " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1764. Cornelius N. Bliss " " " 

1765. Elizabeth M. Bliss (Cornelius N.).. " " " 

1766. Marianna S. Barnard (Wm. F.).... " " " Dec. 4, 1878 

1767. Emily C. Battelle " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1768. George A. Chamberlain " " " Jan. 21, 1875 

1769. Rosa Schiela " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1770. Agnes Lewis " " " Died. No date 

1771. Rebecca Jane Irving (wid. James) . . " " " May 2, 1877 

1772. Mary Yates Hatch (Mrs. Henry B. 

Willard) " " " Mch. 30, 1898 

1773. Laura Whittemore (Mrs. Jonas R. 

Nilsen) " " " Oct. 14, 1896 

1774. Mary Hayes " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1775- John K. Cilley June 28, 1871 April 3, 1878 

1776. Helen L. Cilley (John K.) " " " April 3, 1878 

1777- Joel Whittemore " " " Oct. 28, 1891 

1778. Martha S. Whittemore (Joel) " " " Oct. 28, 1891 

1779- Catherine Tietjen (wid. Christian).. " " " Sept. 14, 1881 

1780. Christian F. Tietjen " " " Sept. 14, 188 1 

1781. Anna Mary Evans (Mrs. George 

Phelps) " " " Oct. 25, 1882 

1782. William J. Thompson " " " April 16, 1879 

290 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. 

1783. Ellen Thompson (William J.) June 28,1871 

1784. Elizabeth J. Boe (wid. John) (Mrs. 
Hesland) " " " 

1785. Christina M. Tietjen " "" " 

1786. Mary Ann Hill {wid. Joseph) " " " 

1787. Louisa Herbst " " " 

17S8. Lydia C. Gaylord Nov. 1, 1871 

1789. Mary M. Bartlett " " 

1790. E. M. Pendleton Williams (Alpheus 
E.) " " " 

1791. Georgia Merriman " " " 

1792. Charles W. Cleveland " " " 

1793- Maria Isabel Cleveland (Charles W.) " " " 

1794. William Gilman Thompson " " " 

1705. Mary Thompson Hunt {Samuel 0.) . " " " 

1796. Charles T. Smith " " " 

1797. Cornelia E. Waldron {Wm. H.) " " " 

1798. Susannah Jennings {John) " " " 

1799. Mary Kohrman {Mrs. Frusetta) " " " 

1800. Leonora Kunzler Berry {Mrs. Wil- 
fred Hartley) " " " 

1801. Robert B. Hall Jan. 3, 1872 

1802. Sarah D. Hall (Robert B.) " " " 

1803. William H. Thomas " " " 

1804. Henry B. Stillman Feb. 28, 1872 

1805. Susan M. Jordan (Mrs. J. J. Grant). " 

1806. Josephine A. Stevens " " " 

1807. Charlotte A. Lathrop " " " 

1808. Daniel M. Woolley " " " 

1809. Noah Brooks " " " 

1810. Eunie Elisabeth Angevine {Mrs. Will- 

iam S. S. Rowland) " " 

1811. Adelaide Phcebe Angevine {Mrs. Col- 
gate) " " " 

1812. Samuel Colcord, Jr May 1, 1872 

1813. Clarissa Lammer " " " 

1814. Thomas Adam " " " 

1815. Kate E. Hull (Joseph D.) " " " 

1816. William M. Taylor " " " 

1817. Jessie Taylor (William M.) " " " 

1818. Mitchell Steedman (Mrs.) " " " 

1819. Robert James Clyde " " " 

1820. Julia Clyde {Robert J.) " " " 

1821. William T. Freed " " " 

1822. Susan Elisabeth Oliver {Mrs. Jen- 
nings) " " " 

1823. Catherine H. Milne July 5, 1872 

1824. Julia Rule (Mrs. Chas. E. Nelson).. " " " 

1825. Emily Rule " " " 

1826. Elizabeth Logue (D. C.) " " " 

1827. L. Smith Hobart " " " 

1828. Cynthia F. Hobart (L. Smith) " " " 

1829. Mary J. Troop (James) " " " 

1830. Oliver H. Corsa, Jr " " " 

1831. James E. Corsa " " " 

291 



When Removed. 


April 


lb, 


1879 


April 28 


1873 


Apn 


11 


1877 


Apri 


11 


1877 


Nov. 


28, 


1894 


Feb. 


■?, 


1880 


April 18, 


1877 


Jan. 


17, 


1877 


Jan. 


17. 


1877 


Nov. 


21, 


1900 


Oct. 


22, 


187^ 


June 


10, 


1880 


Dec. 


28, 


t88i 


May 


2, 


1877 


May 


2, 


1877 


Feb. 


16, 


1876 


Feb. 


16, 


1876 


Oct. 


16, 


1874 


Dec. 


IS, 


1880 


Oct. 


IS, 


1801 


Sept 


27, 


187^ 


Dec. 


31, 


1884 


Dec. 


31, 


1872 


Nov. 


25, 


1885 


Jan. 


24, 


1894 


May 


27, 


1891 


Nov. 


27!, 


T8R2 


Nov. 


3, 


' 


Mch 


7, 


1883 


Feb. 


8, 


1895 


Mch 


t8 


1878 


Oct. 


21, 


1806 


Oct. 


21, 


■ 


June 


IS, 


1881 


Mch 


i,S, 


1876 


Aug. 


4, 


187s 


Nov. 


28, 


1894 


Dec. 


7, 


l8Q2 


Dec. 


16, 


iWs 


Dec. 


16, 




Aug. 


— 


1873 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

1832. John Taylor July 5, 1872 Nov. 28, 1894 

1833. George W. Button " " " Jan. 29, 1874 

1834. Robert W. H. Ackerman ." " " April 11, 1877 

1835. Samuel McCord Oct. 30, 1872 June 19, 1876 

1836. Charles E. Olmsted " " " Oct. 20, 1886 

1837. Anna M. Holbrook (Mrs.) " " " June 23, 1895 

1838. Kate E. Stark " " " April 8, 1885 

1839. Henry F. Hills " " " Sept. 26, 1884 

1840. Mary A. Hills (Henry F.) " " " Sept. 26, 1884 

1841. Mary L. McAlpine (Mrs.) " " " Feb. 10, 1876 

1842. Gratia B. Hollister (wid. Edwin M.) . Dec. 30, 1872 April 1, 1885 
1843- Eunice P. Chapman (Daniel W.) . . . . " " " Nov. 22, 1878 

1844. Alexander Frazer " " " Oct. 4, 1893 

1845. Esther Frazer (Alexander) " " " Oct. 4, 1893 

1846. George M. Tracy " " " Sept. 3, 1874 

1847. Stella L. Tracy (wid. George M.)... " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

1848. Joseph H. Taylor " " " June 5, 1895 

1849- Sarah B. Taylor (Joseph H.) " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

1850. Joshua M. Whitcomb " " " Jan. 8, 1897 

1851. Sarah C. Whitcomb (Joshua M.).... " " ". 

1S52. Rufus H. Somers " " " Nov. 28, 1883 

1853. Edward W. Bell " " *' Mch. 1, 1893 

1854. Julia E. S. Bell (Edward W.) " " " Mch. 1,1893 

1855- John S. McClure " " " June 17, 1885 

1856. Jane A. McClure " " " Feb. 4, 1878 

1857. Mary T. Sparks " " " Jan. 11, 1885 

1858. Henry B. Kirkland " " " Sept. 4 ,1892 

1859- Kate P. Kirkland (wid. Henry B.).. " " " 

i860. Margaret J. Freed (William T.).... " " " Dec. 6, 1875 

1861. Daniel Lancaster " " " May 28, 1880 

1862. Eliza G. Lancaster (wid. Daniel) " " " Nov. 12, 1885 

1863. Anna E. Lancaster " " " 

1864. Helen Lancaster " " " Oct. 4, 1876 

1865. Daniel E. Lancaster " " " 

1866. Emily Ruggles (wid. John G.) " " " Died. No date 

1867. Margaret Trevor " " " Nov. 17, 1876 

1868. Joseph Christopher " " " May 19, 1885 

1869. Marian S. Christopher (wid. Jos.).. " " " Dec. 30, 1886 

1870. Edwin M. Baker " " " Mch. 7, 1888 

1871. Theresa H. Brinkerhoff (wid. Jacob) " " " July 30, 1894 

1872. Mary Frances Stevens (Mrs. James 

W. Plowman') " " " Nov. 12, 1874 

1873. Helen M. Stevens (Mrs. Frederick G. 

Schmidt) " " " Nov. 12, 1874 

1874. Lizzie Whitcomb " " " 

1875. Oscar Engleman " " " April 17, 1873 

1876. George Arthur Willey Feb. 26, 1873 Oct. 22, 1879 

1877. Louisa Dwindle (wid. Justin) " " " April 8, 1875 

1878. Isaac C. Noe " " " Feb. 21, 1889 

1879. Anna Maria Noe (Isaac C.) " " " Feb. 21, 1889 

1880. Oliver R. King " " " Nov. 2, 1892 

1881. Susan H Ward " " " Sept. 26, 1878 

1882. Hetta L. H. Ward " " " Sept. 26, 1878 

1883. Mrs. Harriet M. Harris (wid. Will- 
iam A.) " " " 

292 



Chronological List of Members 



No. Name. When Received. 


When Removed. 


1884- Hugh W. Hunter Feb. 26, 1873 


Nov. 30. 1892 


1885. Agnes A. Hunter (Hugh W.) " " " 


Nov. 30, 1892 


1886. Mary Kneisel (Mrs. Henry Leask) . . " " " 


Died. No date 


1887. Henry D. Tyler " " " 


Mch. 17, 1886 


18SS. Mary J. Fairchild (wid. N. W.) (wid. 




Charles H. Frisbie) " " " 


Dec. 24, 1890 






1890. Ann Groundwater (William) " " " 


Dec. 10, 1873 


1891. Anna Post (Lewis F.) " 


Dec. 15, 1875 


1892. Thomas Angus " 


Oct. 16, 1900 






1894. Mary J. S. Sinclair (John J.) " " " 


Oct. 4, 1893 






1896. Sidney F. Shelbourne " " " 


Nov. 9, 1887 




May 30, 1900 
Feb. 9, 1898 




1899. Jennie Knapp (Mrs. Edwin S. Reid) " " ' 


June 21, 1898 


1900. Lucy Gilman Abbott (Mrs. Paul Mar- 




tin) " " " 


July 1, 1891 


1901. William M. Hall " " " 


Dec. 22, 1875 


1902. Henry C. Hall, Jr " " " 




1903. Albert T. Hall " " " 


May 29, 1889 


1904. Onderdonk Angevine " 




1905. Eunice Ester Angevine (Onderdonk) " " " 




1906. Frederick L. Perkms April 30, 1873 


May 2, 1877 






1908. Harriet N. Marshall " " " 


Sept. 30, 1896 




Sept. 21, 1881 


1910. Marcia S. Bugbee " " " 








1912. Harriet M. Borden (M. C. D.) " " " 




1913. William Caney " " " 


1890 


1914. Henry D. Ranney " 


Jan. 11, 1879 


1915. Ezra P. Hoyt " " " 


Sept. 27, 1894 


1916. Rufus S. Underwood " ' 


June 10, 1875 


1917. Almira J. Underwood (Rufus S.)... " " " 


June 10, 1875 


191&. Annie Helmer " " " 


April 11, 1877 




Mch. 6, 1878 


1920. Susan A. Curtis " " " 


Mch. 6, 1878 


1921. Anna B. Curtis (Mrs. Camp) " 


Mch. 12, 1884 




June 5, 1889 


1923. Ellen M. Taylor (Mrs. Robert L. 




Maitland) " " " 




1924. Irving R. Fisher " " " 


May 13, 1885 


1925. Carrie W. Fisher (Airs. William Ives 








1926. Annie A. Fisher (Mrs. Lefferts Stre- 




beigh) " " " 




1927. Walter L. Ranney " " " 


April 17, 1888 






1929. Amanda M. Smith (Mrs. Henry A. 






Mch. 23, 1898 


1930. Jane A. Matterson (William H.)... " " " 


Feb. 23, 1887 




April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 


1932. August C. Ohle " " " 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



No. 
1933- 
I934- 
I935- 
1936. 
1937- 
1938. 
I939- 
1940. 
1941. 
1942. 
1943- 
1944. 
1945- 
1946. 
1947. 
1948. 
1949. 
I9SO. 
1951- 
1952. 
1953- 
1954- 
1955- 
1956- 
1957- 



1965. 
1966. 
1967. 
1968. 
1969. 
1970. 
1971. 
1972. 
1973- 
1974. 
1975- 
1976. 
1977. 
1978. 
1979- 
1980. 
1981. 
1982. 
1983. 
1984. 
198S. 



Name. When Received. 

Caroline H. Ohle April 30, 1873 

Margaret Ray ( William) 

Amelia Silker (Emmler) 

Eliza Stewart {Mrs. Wilson) 

Mary E. Testman June 25, 1873 

Amelia Miller 

William P. Brown 

Annie R. Brown (William P.) 

Jane Wood (wid. Reuben R.) 

Louisa B. Dewey (William C.) 

James Mairs 

George F. Brown 

Almira J. Brown (George F.) 

James Simpson 

Jane Simpson (James) 

Edward F. Browning 

Lucy A. Browning (Edward F.)... 

Sarah M. Washburn (Mrs.) 

Julia M. Garvin (Samuel B.) 

May Garvin (Mrs. J. F. P. Hodson) 

Henry Aught 

Sarah A. Aught (Henry) 

Edwin F. Ward 

Abbie L. Ward (Edwin F.) 

Elizabeth Heebshen 

Annie M. Drumm 

Frederick Burt 

John McKean 

Hattie L. McKean (John) 

Rufus Chandler Sept. 3, 1873 

Anna F. Chandler (Rufus) " " " 

Beulah V. Stephens (Charles J.).... Oct. 29, 1873 

Theodore D. Bradford 

Willis B. Fry 

James Johnson 

Rosetta Mitchell 

Susan S. Child (O. Watson) 

Martha L. St. John (Mrs.) 

Alice M. Williams 

Louisa Wersbe (Henry) 

Louisa Gehring 

Mary Bruggemann 

Elizabeth M. Tennant 

John Anderson Dec. 30, 1873 

Elizabeth S. Adams 

Fanny H. Foote 

Joanna T. Boyd (Fred S.) 

Charles T. Raynolds 

Adelaide A. Raynolds (Charles T.). 

Isaac Evans 

Justine S. Evans (Isaac) 

James Marshall 

Elizabeth D. Marshall (wid. James) . 

Waldo H. Jordan Feb. 25, 1874 

Louise Jordan (Waldo H.) " " " 

294 



When Removed. 
April II, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
May 2, 1877 
Jan. 5, 1876 
Dec. 1, 1881 
Nov. 28, 1900 
Nov. 28, 1900 
Feb. 27, 1891 
June 27, 1888 
Jan. 1, 1876 
Nov. 27, 1839 
Nov. 27, 1889 
April 1, 1875 
April 1, 1875 



Jan. 4, 18c 
Sept. 27, i8£ 
Nov. 8, 18$ 
Oct. 13, iSl 
Dec. 3, i8£ 



Jan. 23, 1878 

Nov. 28, 1894 

May 25, 1898 

May 18, 1892 

May 18, 1892 

Dec. 11, 1889 

Oct. 26, 1887 

Nov. 22, 1882 

April 13, 1881 

July 6, 1881 

June 3, 1874 

July 27, 1882 

April 4, 1888 

Sept. 19, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April II, 1877 
May 2, 1877 
Nov. 12, 1874 
Dec. 14, 1876 
April 1, 1891 
June 2, 1874 
Jan. 20, 1876 
Jan. 20, 1876 
Nov. 19, 1875 
Nov. 19, 1875 
Mch. 3, 1885 



Chronological List of Members 



No. Name. When Received. 

1988. Elizabeth Sangster Feb. 25, 1874 

1989. Douglas R. Satterlee " 

1990. Elizabeth K. Satterlee 

1991. Theodore K. Satterlee 

1992. Mary R. Bremer (John L.) 

1993. Robert Marshall 

1994. George T. Cooke 

1995. Fannie J. Cooke 

1996. Mary S. Hoyt (Ezra P.) 

1997. William J. Nevius 

1998. Eliza W. Nevius 

1999. Freeman P. Woodbury 

2000. Harriet A. Woodbury (wid. Free- 
man P. ) 

2001. J. Sutherland Irving 

2002. Amanda F. Porter 

2003. Eliza Porter 

2004. Carrie Herrmann 

2005. Henry B. Sands 

2006. John G. Wardrop 

2007. John Allyn 

2008. Jennie H. Elgas {Mathew J.) 

2009. Margaret A. Roberts {Mrs. Oliver T. 
Sherwood) 

2010. Letitia D. Wright 

2011. Edward Lewis 

2012. David W. Prime 

2013. Sarah D. Milton {wid. Alfred) 

2014. Sarah J. Milton 

2015. John Simpson 

2016. Wilhelmena Duurloo {wid. Jacob)... 

2017. Mary Caddoo { William) 

2018. Anna E. Leader 

2019. Magdalena Harter {Henry) 

2020. Minnie Duurloo 

2021. William H. Ashton April 29, if 

2022. Mary A. Broome (Mrs.) " 

2023. Leila E. Seward (Mrs. William H. 
Gleason) 

2024. Henry H. King 

2025. Nancy King (Henry H.) 

2026. Ester F. Moore (wid. William D.).. 

2027. Caroline P. Hudson (Ephraim H.).. 

2028. Anna C. Hudson (Mrs. Condit) 

2029. Hannah E. Seymore (Edwin S.).... 

2030. Lucien C. Warner 

2031. Keren Warner (Lucien C.) 

2032. Elizabeth L. Pigott 

2033. William F. Laing 

2034. Clorinda Laing {William F.) 

2035. Clara J. Chase 

2036. Edward R. McLaury 

2037. Bradford K. Wiley 

2038. Charlotte A. Duurloo 

2039. William Walker ' 



When Removed. 
Dec. 20, 1879 
Sept. 26, 1894 
Sept. 26, 1894 
Nov. 2, 1881 

Sept. 1, 1884 

Mch. — , 1880 
Sept. 27, 1894 
Jan. 24, 1877 
Jan. 24, 1877 
April 18, 1886 



Nov. 28, 1894 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 

Nov. 18, 1888 

Nov. 28, 1894 

Feb. 16, 1881 

Oct. 17, 1894 

April 23, 1891 
Aug. 21, 1878 
May 2, 1894 
April 18, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 15, 1875 
Nov. 28, 1894 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Nov. 28, 1894 

May 30, 1877 
June 5, 1874 
Dec. 21, 1876 
June 15, 1890 
May 10, 1893 
Dec. 10, 1879 
Nov. 28, 1894 



May 29, 1878 
May 29, 1878 

Mch. 16, 1881 
Oct. 21, 1896 
April 11, 1877 
Jan. 16, 1877 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2040. Julia Walker (wid. William) April 29, 1874 April 11, 1877 

2041. Jane Simpson (John) " " " April n, 1877 

2042. William P. McLaury June 24, 1874 Feb. 6, 1876 

2043. Theodora J. McLaury (Wm. P.) " " " Feb. 6, 1876 

2044. Helen Nicol (Mrs. James Robertson) " " " April 27, 1882 

2045. Elizabeth Ecclestone (wid. James) 

(Mrs. Elizabeth Potter) " " " April 11, 1884 

2046. Charles W. Benedict " " " Aug. 25, 1875 

2047. Jane M. Benedict (Charles W.) " " " 

2048. Fanny L. Benedict " " " 

2049. Emily A. Benedict (Mrs. Frederick 

William Pickard) " " " Mch. 21, 1894 

2050. Garabed A. Knajian " " " May 8, 1878 

2051. Waller Holladay " " " 

2052. Kate M. Holladay (Waller) " " " Aug. 25, 1891 

2053. Mary Y. Chittenden (Lucius E.) " " " Feb. 26, 1894 

2054. Katie Gordon (Stephen T.) " " " May 12, 1876 

2055. Matthew Crawford " " " Feb. 25, 1877 

2056. Francis B. Hornbrooke " " " July 15, 1874 

2057. Agnes McLean " " " 

2058. John C. Guy Oct. 28, 1874 Sept. — , 1892 

2059. Anna Worth (wid. Francis W.) (wid. 

Austin Abbott) " " " 

2060. Dilla M. Hassinger (Mrs.) " " " April 18, 1877 

2061. Henry S. Wellcome " " " Dec. 3, 1878 

2062. Albert Herb st " " " April n, 1877 

2063. John H. Glossner " " " April 11, 1877 

2064. Matilda L. Glossner (John H.) " " " April II, 1877 

2065. Harriet S. Nelson (wid. Geo. W.).. " " " 

2066. Joseph H. Irvine " " " June 2, 1880 

2067. Bessie Taylor (Mrs. Frank R. Hough- 

ton) " " " April 8, 1885 

2068. Nettie L. Camp " " " Mch. n, 1890 

2069. Agnes L. Lasar " " " April 25, 1877 

2070. Laura B. Banks (Moses O.) Dec. 30, 1874 Mch. 28, 1890 

2071. Horace D. Sherrill " " " Jan. 26, 1887 

2072. Lillie E. Sherrill (Horace D.) " " " Jan. 26, 1887 

2073. John Philips " " " Nov. 27, 1876 

2074. Sarah A. Stratton " " " Nov. 6, 1895 

2075. George A. Barrett " " " April 11, 1877 

2076. William W. Hemmenway " " " April 27, 1876 

2077. Eliza Hemmenway " " " April 27, 1876 

2078. Cora D. Hemmenway " " " April 27, 1876 

2079. Edward E. Jones " " " Dec. 3, 1900 

2080. Arthur D. Whittemore " " " May 3, 1882 

2081. William A. McKinney " " " Jan. 4, 1882 

2082. Charles W. Jenkins " " " 

2083. Henry C. Houghton " " " 

2084. M. Ella P. Houghton (Henry C.)... " " " April 3, 1898 

2085. Fannie Foster Jenkins (Charles W.). " " " 

2086. Henry W. Hubbard " " " 

2087. Alonzo H. Johnson " " " Mch. 27, 1878 

2088. Annie E. Buckingham " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2089. David Sinclair " " " May 15, 1882 

2090. Louisa E. Davenport (John I.) " " " Sept. 14, 1882 



Chronological List of Members 



2091. 

200-'. 

^93- 
2004 
.2005. 
2000. 
2097. 
200S. 
2099. 
2100. 
2101. 
2102. 
2103. 
2104. 
2105. 
2100. 
2107. 
210S. 

2100. 
2110. 
2III, 
2112. 
2113. 
2II4. 
2115. 



2II8. 

2119. 

2120. 
2121. 
2122. 
2123. 

2124. 
2125. 
2120. 
2127. 
2I2S. 
2129. 



Name. When Received. 

Jane Van Dorn (wid. William') Dec. 30, 1874 

Sarah Dyatt ( William) '' ' 

Maggie Trinkhaus (Henry) 

Kate Kirk (.William) 

Henry Flohr 

Elizabeth Flohr (Henry) 

Mary Long 

Eliza A. Taylor (Isaac) 

Edward A. Birnie Mch. 3, 1875 

Oliver R. Patch " " 

Alburtis Webb " 

Mary B. Webb (Alburtis) " 

Edwin West " 

Mary West (Edwin) " 

Mary White " 

George W. Hale " 

Mary J. Hale (George W.) " 

John Porteous " 

Margaret P. Janes " 

Levi W. Partridge " 

Mary Foster ( Mrs. ) " 

Esther Stedman (Mrs.) " 

Elisha H. Allen April 28, 1875 

Henrietta M. Newcomb (Harvey) . . " 
Elizabeth B. Robbins (Mrs. James 

Baker) 

Mary B. Lambert 

Winfield Robbins 

Sarah Browning 

Maria A. Ward (Herbert D.) 

Mary J. S. Halsey (Lawrence W.) . . . 

Brainerd T. Norris 

Elizabeth K. Norris (Brainerd T.) . . 

William Tompkins 

Sophia V. Tompkins (William) 

Moses Harris 

Sarah V. Harris (Moses) 

George T. Addison 

Sarah A. Addison (George T.) 

Charles J. Moore 

John H. Eden 

Mary D. Eden (John H.) 

Katie A. L. Chidsey (Mrs. Alfred 

Dana) 

Daniel S. Pillsbury 

Mary F. Pillsbury (Daniel S.) 

Jessie A. Ross (Henry C.) ' 

Fannie Sanford 

Carrie C. Knapp (Mrs. George A. 

Galindo) 

Josephine Pinkerton (Mrs. William 

Clark) 

Dewitt C. Grinnell 

Benjamin F. Grinnell 

Emily H. Thompson 

297 



When Removed. 
April II, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April ii, 1877 
April ii, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
Mch. 22, 1889 
Dec. 8, 1877 
April 4, 1889 
Feb. 4, 1879 
Nov. 2, 1892 
June 13, 1891 
Nov. 7, 1877 
Feb. 2, 1881 
Feb. 2, 1881 
Nov. 28, 1894 

May 15, 1889 
Oct. 28, 1875 
April 11, 1877 
Feb. 16, 1881 
June 20, 1877 

April 10, 1895 
Mch. — , 1882 
Nov. 23, 1881 

Sept. 27, 1880 

Dec. 28, 1887 

Oct. 25, 1893 

Jan. 9, 1876 

Feb. 8, 1883 

Feb. 8, 1883 

Nov. 26, 1890 

Nov. 26, 1890 

Mch. 3, 1887 

Mch. 3, 1887 

April 18, 1877 

May 18, 1887 

May 18, 1887 

May 8, 1879 
Oct. 19, 1898 
Oct. 19, 1898 



Mch. 21, 1879 
Sept. 14, 1881 
Sept. 12, 1877 
April 30, 1884 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2142. Kate L .Thompson (Mrs. Jos. Wild) April 28, 1875 

2143. Evaline G. Thompson " " " April 30, 1884 

2144. Mary Manning (wid. Geo. Heather) . " " " 

2145. Helen P. Woodbury (Mrs. William 

S. Seamans) " " " 

2146. Mary H. Chittenden (Mrs. William 

Bradford) " " " 

2147. Bessie B. Chittenden (Mrs. Frederick 

B. Richards) " " " Jan. 25, 1899 

2148. Frederick H. Hatch " " " May 31, 1899 

2149. Emily T. Hatch (Mrs. Elwood O. 

Roessle) " " " 

2150. Carrie B. Hazeltine " " " 

2151. John S. Taylor " " " 

2152. Isobel M. Taylor " " " 

2153. William J. Taylor " " " 

2154. Mary Bates " " " 

2155. William G. Bates " " " 

2156. Lizzie Guthrie (Mrs. H. B. Wilson) . " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2157. Nathaniel C. Fisher " " " 

2158. Ida M. Ward (Mrs. Eugene L. Len- 

tilhon) " " " Mch. 7, 1894 

2159. Lizzie P. Bliss " " " 

2160. Minnie A. Robe " " " Sept. 8, 1879 

2161. Georgie Virginia Tucker " " " Dec. 6, 1878 

2162. Ella Corsa " " " 

2163. Mattie J. Thompson (Mrs. N. T. 

Leganger) " " " Oct. 14, 1896 

2164. Minnie E. Frazer (Mrs. Edward D. 

Allin) " " " Oct. 4, 1893 

2165. Isabel A. Frazer (Mrs. Wellington 

Crosby) " " " Feb. 8, 1884 

2166. Charles E. Whittemore " " " 

2167. William J. Whittemore " " " 

2168. Andrew Miles Payne " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2169. Jane A. Fairchild (Mrs. Wtn. Leeson) " " " June 5, 1889 

2170. William H. Coolidge " " " Mch. 12, 1879 

2171. Nellie L. Coolidge (William H.) " " " Mch. 12, 1879 

2172. Amanda L. Stewart (wid. Charles) .. " " " Dec. 3, 1876 

2173. Josephine B. Stewart (Mrs. Henry R. 

Price) " " " 

2174. William Carey " " " 

2175. Adelaide R. Downey (wid. Henry 

De G. Hastings) " " " April 17, 1895 

2176. Charles L. Fitch " " " 

2177. Mary C. Phelps " *' " 

2178. George H. Clark " " " 

2179. Henry N. Cornett " " " April 1 1, 1877 

2180. Caroline Comett (Henry N.) " " " April 1 1, 1877 

2181. Henry N. Cornett, Jr " " " April II, 1877 

2182. Sophia Nickels " " " April 1 1, 1877 

2183. Lillie Moore " " " April II, 1877 

2184. Henry L. Clapp June 23, 1875 

2185. Susan P. Clapp (Henry L.) " *' " Oct. 31, 1881 

2186. Levi H. Marstellar " " " Dec. 23, 1893 



Chronological List of Members 



No. Name. Wher 

2187. William G. Rule Jun< 

2188. Elizabeth Rule (William G.) " 

2189. Elizabeth B. Bush (wid. Charles P.) . " 

2190. Caroline E. Bush " 

2191. Anna E. Bush " 

2192. Mary E. Scudder (Raymond B.) " 

2193. Belle McDonald {Mrs. X. John Little) " 

2194. Jane Robertson (George) June 25, 1875 

2195. Lewis D. Greene Nov. 3, 1875 

2196. John F. Baker 

2197. Anna E. Benedict (wid. Seth W.)... 

2198. George R. Benedict 

2199. Bertha Sterling 

2200. Benjamin D. Skinner 

2201. Thomasetta Skinner (Benjamin D.). 

2202. Barbara Fairchild 

2203. Robert Downey 

2204. Nancy A. G. Satterlee (wid. Doug- 

lass) 

2205. Annette Satterlee 

2206. Lucy G. Satterlee 

2207. Anna H. Satterlee 

2208. Sophie Herrmann (Mrs. Fred. Parker) 

2209. Barbara Herrmann 

2210. Carrie Herrmann (Mrs. F. Niemann) 

221 1. Alice C. Wright 

2212. Amelia Waldron (Alexander) 

2213. Letitia Cunningham (wid. James) . . 

2214. William W. Oliver 

2215. Dora Louisa Wolf 

2216. Alfred Bertschky 

2217. Philip Lahm 

2218. Margaret Lahm (Philip) 

2219. Pauline Lahm 

2220. Mary A. B. Elsesser (Mrs.) 

2221. Peter Clark 

2222. Gardina Y. Clark (Peter) 

2223. Michael Bender 

2224. Wilhelmina P. Hoffman (John) 

2225. Ellen Hocking (Bartholomew) 

2226. Charles R. Bennett 

2227. Mary Bennett (Charles R.) 

2228. Maggie Van Dorn (Samuel) 

2229. Ambrose E. Stone Dec. 29, 1875 

2230. Isabella H. Hall 

2231. Susan Howland 

2232. Emma M. Jones (Edward E.) 

2233. Edmund B. Kellogg 

2234. Margaret B. Stuart 

2235. Elizabeth Lewis (Edward) 

2236. Mary A. Taylor (William) 

2237. Mary Louise Taylor (Mrs. John Lind- 

say McCutcheon) 

2238. Carrie E. B. Tietjen (Chistian F.).. 

2239. Angelia L. Hamilton 

299 



When Removed. 
May 3, 1884 
Feb. 19, 1882 
Dec. 21, 1892 

Nov. 25, 1896 
April 14, 1880 

July — 1875 



Feb. 27, 1879 

Feb. 27, 1879 

Nov. 28, 1894 

June 16, 1881 

July 6, 1894 

Nov. 28, 1900 

Sept. ii, 1886 

Aug. — , 1880 

May 11, 1881 

May 11, 1881 

May 11, 1881 



Mch. 27, 1890 

Sept. 17, 1888 
April 11, 1877 
April n, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 

Oct. 4, 1882 

Nov. 28, 1900 

Dec. 5, 1900 

Nov. 28, 1894 

Nov. 28, 1894 

May 2, 1894 

Nov. 23, 1885 

July 1, 1883 
Sept. 14, 1881 
Sept. 29, 1886 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



No. Name. When Received. 

2240. Susie B. Tompkins Dec. 29, 1875 

2241. Margaret Pierson (wid. Alfred) . . 

2242. John Pierson 

2243. Charles W. F. Brucher 

2244. Selma Schweitzer 

2245. Louisa Myatt 

2246. Winfred Hall 

2247. Emily S. Sanford (Mrs. Brainerd) . . Mch. 1, 1876 

2248. Emily Wallace (William S.) " 

2249. Zophar L. Howell 

2250. Anna B. Howell (Z. L.) 

2251. Samuel Stewart 

2252. Emma J. Stewart 

2253. Frederick E. Farmer 

2254. Delia E. Emmerson 

22 5S- John Lewice 

2256. Sarah Bartholomew (wid. Fred. H.). 

2257. James M. Waller 

2258. Frances A. Waller (James M.) 

2259. Linda G. Waller 

2260. Fannie M. Waller 

2261. H. Sterling Kirkland 

2262. William Liddell 

2263. Catherine Liddell 

2264. Mary Wilson 

2265. William Kemp 

2266. Agnes W. Kemp (William) 

2267. Ida W. Horton (Harding S.) 

2268. Margaret T. Livingston (Mrs. Walter 

W. Watrous) 

2269. Theodore W. Trowbridge 

2270. Myra A. Trowbridge (Theodore W.) 

2271. Janet Stewart 

2272. Catherine L. Taylor (Mrs. C. E. 

Whittemore) May 3, 1876 

2273. Homer Bush " 

2274. Frederick W. Home 

2275. William Chester Phelps 

2276. Lillian G. Phelps 

2277. Edwin De Baun 

2278. Seth W. Johnson 

2279. Frederick W. Link 

2280. Charles W. Link 

2281. Caroline B. Link (Mrs. George M. 

Taylor) 

2282. David McLaughlin 

2283. Joseph Wilson 

2284. Homer Bostwick 

2285. Annie M. Bostwick (Mrs. Frederick 

Greene) 

2286. Hannah R. Bostwick (wid. Fordyce 

H. Hawley) 

2287. Homer Bostwick, Jr 

2288. George Tolmie 

2289. John H. Boswell ... 

300 



When Removed. 
Nov. 28, 1894 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April ii, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
May 2, 1877 
May 15, 1880 
July 13, 1894 
Dec. ii, 1878 
Dec. 11, 1878 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Nov. 28, 1894 

Oct. 30, 1878 
Nov. 19, 1886 
Dec. 10, 1879 
Dec. 10, 1879 
Dec. 10, 1879 
Dec. 10, 1879 

Feb. 28, 1889 
Feb. 28, 1889 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Dec. 25, 1887 
Oct. 7, 1891 
Feb. 14, 1887 

Nov. 28, 1894 
Feb. 3, 1891 
Feb. 3, 1891 
Nov. 28, 1894 



Jan. 25, 1893 
May 15, 1889 

Jan. 9, 1895 



Feb. 7, 1891 
Nov. 28, 1876 
Sept. 24, 1885 
Aug. 14, 1883 

June 17, 1891 

Mch. 11, 1896 
Dec. 1, 1897 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Mch. 31, 1897 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2290. Gertrude A. Smith (Mrs. S. Jennings 

Gorman) May 3, 1876 

22gi. Mary E. Angus (Mrs. Robert Smellie) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 
2292- Evelyn Angus (Mrs. John M. Moss- 
man) " " " 

2293. Annie M. Pillsbury " " " 

2294. Charles P. Rodgers " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2295. Anna B. Rodgers (Charles P.) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2296. Minnie B. Rodgers (Mrs. Charles F. 

Zabriskie) " " " Oct. 7, 1896 

2297. Samuel W. Banning " " " June 30, 1887 

2298. Benjamin R. Gaul " " " Jan. 8, 1892 

2299. Emma Van Volkcnburgh (Mrs. Ed- 

ward S. Rapallo) " " " 

2300. Anna G. Hunt (wid. Thomas G.) . . . " " " Dec. 29, 1897 

2301. Alexander H. Palmer " " " May 31, 1882 

2302. Anna H. Palmer (Alexander H.) " " " Feb. 26, 1896 

2303. Alexander King " " " Mch. 12, 1879 

2304. Hattie R. W Hit comb " " " Nov. 3, 1879 

2305. Sallie Whit comb (Mrs. George B. 

Sterling) " " " Jan. 24, 1893 

2306. William Johnson " " " Dec. 10, 1893 

2307. Frances T. Barrett (Mrs. O. B. 

Williams) " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

2308. Howard R. Martin " " " Jan. 28, 1891 

2309. Letitia Lowry (Mrs. Jas. Stewart) . . " " " Oct. 16, 1885 

2310. Bertha Raddatz " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2311. Carrie E. Adams (Mrs. Edwin W. 

Orvis) " " " June 23, 1886 

2312. Josephine Hooker (Mrs. Henry Sterl- 

ing Kirkland) " " " 

2313. James F. Talcott " " " April 14, 1880 

2314. James Sinclair, Jr " " " June 23, 1893 

2315. Georgianna BareHeld " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2316. Jennie Fletcher " " " Sept. 29, 1876 

2317. Adelaide H. Ennis (Mrs. Rufus 

Adams) " " " Mch. 14, 1877 

2318. Annie Mahon " " " Died. No date 

2319. Sarah C. Hunter " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2320. Duncan Frazer " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2321. Leslie P. Gillies " " " Dec. 14, 1881 

2322. Charles B. White " " " Jan. 21, 1880 

2323. Jennie G. Strahan (Mrs. David Dows, 

Jr.) " " " May 31, 1893 

2324. Ella F. Johnson (Seth W.) " " " Jan. 9, 1895 

2325. Jane McKenzie (wid. Alexander) 

(Mrs. James S. Keith) " " " Dec. 5, 1894 

2326. Laura H. McKenzie (Mrs. Alfred 

McC. Ogle) " " " April 1, 1885 

2327. Sophie Lentz " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2328. Charlotte M. Toltnie (George) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2329. Eliza Inslee " " " 

2330. Louisa Inslee (Mrs. Jas. T. Mount) . " " " Oct. 10, 1883 

2331. Kate S. Banning (wid. Samuel W.). " " " June 5, 1896 
22,2,2. Henrietta J. Kincaid " " " Mch. 29, 1893 

301 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



No. 
2333- 
2334- 
2335- 
2336. 
2337. 
2338. 
2339- 
2340. 
2341. 
2342. 
2343- 
2344- 
2345- 
2346. 
2347. 



2349- 
2350. 
2351- 
2352. 
2353- 
2354- 
2355- 
2356. 
2357- 

2358. 
2359- 
2360. 
2361. 
2362. 
2363. 
2364. 
2365- 
2366. 
2367. 
2368. 
2369. 
2370. 
2371. 
2372. 
2373. 
2374- 
2375- 
2376. 
2377- 
2378. 
2379- 
2380. 
2381. 
2382. 
2383. 
2384. 
238S. 



Name. When Receii 

Caroline Gaul (Benjamin R.) May 3, i< 

James C. Nicoll *' " 

Elizabeth P. Martin (Howard R.)... " " 

Philip Van Volkenburgh " " 

Ann S. Van Volkenburgh (Philip).. " " 

William R. H. Martin " " 

Charles H. Frisbie " " 

Anna M. Sinclair (James, Jr.) " " 

Nancy McC. Thurber (Horace K.).. " " 

Sarah S. Shotwell (Mrs.) " " 

Sarah A. Watson " " 

Sarah A. Seymore (William P.).... June 14,1! 

Sarah E. Seymore " " 

Frank R. Houghton " " 

Herbert R. Houghton " " 

Fanny B. Neff (Mrs. Samuel E. 

Ewing) " " 

Wallace L. Thomson " " 

Mary H. Thomson " " 

William Widdows " " 

John Thomson " " 

Henry Lahm " " 

Charles L. Hall Sept. 20, 1876 

Emma C. Hall (Charles L.) " " " 

Mary Pattison (Mrs.) Nov. I, 1876 

Minnie J. McClaury (Mrs. George D. 

Browne) " " " 

Edward F. Walker " " " 

George W. Somerindyke " " " 

Henry Howard " " " 

Catherine G. Howard (Henry) " " " 

Frederick A. Phillips Nov. 30, 1876 

Letitia Jackson (Saul F.) " " " 

Hannah Schuyler (wid. Augustus) . . " " " 

Charlotte Griffiths " " " 

Robert C. Robinson " " " 

James H. O'Hara " " " 

Julia E. Haggerty " " " 

James T. Greer > " " " 

George Seeger " " " 

Mary Burkhardt " " " 

Elizabeth Rollman (George) " " " 

Catherine Heim (wid. Jacob) " " " 

John Oelrich " " " 

Isaac Long " " " 

Evelyn A. White " " " 

Phcebe Long (Isaac) " " " 

Margaret W. McCorkle (James H.).Jan. 3, 1877 

Ellen W. McCorkle " " " 

Elizabeth O. McCorkle " " " 

Lowell Lincoln " " " 

Clara A. Lincoln (Lowell) " " " 

Anna Wilson (Joseph) " " " 

Augustus Gaylord " " " 

Martha C. Gaylord (Augustus) " " " 

302 



When Removed. 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Jan. 28, 1891 
Jan. 28, 1891 
Feb. 18, 1889 



April 15, 1882 



Nov. 28, 1894 
Dec. 9, 1895 



June 10, 1885 
Feb. 25, 1884 

April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
Nov. 23, 1881 
April 17, 1881 
Nov. 28, 1894 



Nov. 28, 1900 
Nov. 28, 1900 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April II, 1877, 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April II, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April II, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
April 11, 1877 
Jan. 8, 1881 
Mch. 17, 1887 
Nov. 28, 1894 
April 3, 1886 
April 3, 1886 
Sept. 24, 1885 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2386. Irving C. Gaylord Jan. 3, 1877 June 22, 1882 

2387. Agnes King (Alexander) " " " Mch. 12, 1879 

2388. Minnie Macadam " " " Feb. 6, 1895 

2389. William R. Beckwith " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2390. Benjamin Griffin " " " 

2391. Rena W. Griffin (Benjamin) " " " 

2392. Charlotte M. Bain " " " Dec. 15, 1884 

2393- Wright Gillies " " " 

2394. Anna L. Gillies (Wright) " " " 

2395. Margaret E. Whittemore (wid. Ar- 

thur D.) " " " May 3, 1882 

2396. Thomas A. Mcintosh " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2397. William H. Fowler " " " Sept. 30, 1896 

2398. Adeline Fowler {William H.) " " " Sept. 30, 1896 

2399. Ella Grace Smith (Mrs. Edward A. 

Starkey) " " " Oct. 10, 1888 

2400. Julius Augustus Gaylord " " " Jan. 31, 1886 

2401. Sarah Ward (wid.) " " " Jan. — , 1877 

2402. John Eidmann Jan. 17, 1877 April 11, 1877 

2403. Barbara Eidmann (John) " " " April 11, 1877 

2404. Benjamin P. De Witt " " " April 11, 1877 

2405. John M. Jones Feb. 28, 1877 Mch. 5, 1879 

2406. Etta O. Jones " " " Mch. 5, 1879 

2407. Lillian M. Baker (Mrs. Doivning 

Vaux) " " " 

2408. Nicholas T. Leganger " " " Oct. 14, 1896 

2409. Thomas W. Leslie " " " 

2410. Sarah E. Hayes . " " " Mch. 26, 1890 

2411. Helen McRorie " " " Mch. 28, 189 1 

2412. Mary D. Bradford (Mrs. R. G. 

Dun) " " " Oct. 3, 1900 

2413. Marsena J. Robert (Frederick) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2414- Elizabeth M. Dunn (R. G.) " " " May 8, 1882 

2415. Frank H. Andrews " " " June 21, 1890 

2416. John McGaw Woodbury " " " Nov. 19, 1889 

2417. Margaret Mcintosh " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2418. Allen Thornburgh " " " Jan. 26, 1881 

2419. Ellen Thornburgh (Allen) " " " Jan. 26, 1881 

2420. Herbert F. Pardee " " " Mch. 16, 1877 

2421. Sarah Lambie (wid. George) " " " July 17, 1878 

2422. James A. Cunningham " " " April 11, 1877 

2423. Robert B. Gillies May 6, 1877 

2424. Julia Schwartz " " " Feb. 7, 1889 

2425. Charles Talcott " " " June 12, 1885 

2426. Mary F. Talcott (Charles) " " " June 12, 1885 

2427. Kate W. Smith " " " Mch. 3, 1879 

2428. Stewart W. Smith " " " Mch. 7, 1894 

2429. David C. Graham " " " Nov. 7, 1877 

2430. Alice F. Bodman " " " Mch. 7, 1888 

2431. Marie Ranney (Ambrose L.) " " " Dec. 6, 1888 

2432. Lena F. Hayes " " " May 30, 1900 

2433- W. H. Martin (William R. H.) " " " 

2434. George C. Perkins " " " Nov. 20, 1895 

2435. John A. Van Buskirk " " " 

2436. Mary E .Van Buskirk (John A.) " " " 

303 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2437. Kate K. Van Buskirk (wid. G. Win- 

throp Root) May 6, 1877 Dec. 5, 1894 

2438. Robert McLean " " " 

2439. Charlotte W. Adams " " " Dec. 24, 1882 

2440. Sanford L. Sayre " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2441. Camilla G. Rowe " " " Jan. 14, 1880 

2442. Rosalind Gillette " " " Nov. 12, 1884 

2443. Lulu F. Hatch (Mrs. Geo. R. Preston) " " " Mch. 14, 1895 

2444. Jenny S. Hatch {Mrs. John C. F. 

Gardner) " " " 

2445- William S. Hall " " " 

2446. Amanda M. Hall (William S.) " " " 

2447. Albert A. Johnson " " " Jan. 16, 1893 

2448. Emma Johnson {wid. Albert A.) " " " May 2, 1894 

2449. Jacob R. Thoman " " " Dec. 8, 1897 

2450. Mary H. Johnson (F. M.) " " " April 1 6, 1890 

2451. Robert E. Carey " " " May 30, 1900 

2452. Richard H. Lippincott " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2453. Julia E. Baker {John F.) " " " 

2454. Frederick G. Hunt " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

2455. William H. Stewart " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2456. Nahabed Abdalian " " " Nov. 12, 1895 

2457. William L. Flanagan " " " Dec. 31, 1885 

2458. Gertrude E. Flanagan {Mrs. John 

Porter Shannon) " " " Mch. 12, 1884 

2459. Annette A. Bryant (J. D.) Oct. 31, 1877 

2460. Clinton H. Smith " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2461. Welthea C. Smith (Clinton H.) "" " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2462. Helen L. Thayer (D. G.) " '" " Feb. 14, 1883 

2463. Carrie A. Case {Mrs. Edwin B. 

Curtis) " " " Mch. 31, 1897 

2464. Mary L. Case {Mrs. Julian Wheeler 

Curtis) " " " Mch. 31, 1897 

2465. Julia Fleming " " " 

2466. John H. Sweetzer " " " 

2467. L. Cornelia Sweetzer (John H.) " " " 

2468. Howard P. Sweetzer " " " 

2469. Alice M. Sweetzer " " " 

2470. Marquis D. Thomas " " " Dec. 27, 1877 

2471. Lydia Thomas (Marquis D.) " " " Oct. 30, 1887 

2472. Amelia E. Thomas " " " Dec. 28, 1892 

2473. Robert J. Loudon " " " July 20, 1878 

2474. S. Jennie Loudon (Robert J.) " " " Oct. 24, 1888 

2475. Sarah M. Wright (wid. James) " " " Oct. 1, 1881 

2476. Mary N. Wright " " " June 24, 1890 

2477. Laura E. Jones (Mrs.) Jan. 6, 1878 Sept. n, 1892 

2478. John Davidson " " " Jan. 16, 1S84 

2479. Mary Bloomfield (J.J.) " " " April 11, 1895 

2480. John J. Brown .' " " " 

2481. Mary Brown (John J.) " " " Sept. 19, 1892 

2482. Annie V. Brown (Mrs. Wm. Bryan) . " " " 

2483. Mary C. Brown " " " 

2484. James W. Gillies " " " Feb. 5, 1899 

2485. Anna E. Gillies (James W.) " " " Dec. 5, 1900 

2486. Edwin J. Gillies " " " Nov. 26, 1890 

304 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2487. Mary E. Macfarlane Jan. 6, 1878 Jan. 28, 1889 

2488. S. Alice Livingston (Mrs. B. N. 

Smith) " " " Oct. 18, 1886 

2489. Mary G. Sheldon (Lewis) " " " April 11, 1883 

2490. Anna M. Shields " " " 

2491. S. Charles Welsh " " " April 27, 1898 

2492. Belle F. Welsh (S. Charles) " " " April 27, 1898 

2493. Henry Prentice " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2494. Anna C. Benedict " " " 

2495. John M. Moifatt " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2496. Jane Walker (Mrs. John C. Bruen) . " " " Dec. 1, 1881 

2497. Henry S. Hicks " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2498. William C. Gardiner Mch. 3, 1878 

2499. Margaret Stirling (Charles) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2500. William G. Davis " " " Oct. 7, 1885 

2501. Anna L. Gillies (Mrs. George J. 

Schmelze) " " " Jan. 30, 1888 

2502. John D. McPherson " " " Sept. 21, 1881 

2503. Alexander Lambert " " " 

2504. William B. Fitts " " " May 15, 1889 

2505. Frank G. Du Bois " " " Sept. 28, 1892 

2506. Clara A. Baker " " " 

2507. George G. Hall " " " 

2508. Esther B. Hobbie (wid. Win. H.).... May 5, 1878 Dec. 4, 1895 

2509. John R. Hobbie " " " April 17, 1889 

2510. James G. Hobbie " " " Feb. 9, 1887 

251 1. Annette Vrooman " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2512. Martha Leslie " " " Dec. 4, 1878 

2513. Louise Toles " " " Mch. 7, 1888 

2514. Richard McNamee " " " Oct. 31, 1894 

2515. Alice McNamee (Richard) " " " Oct. 31, 1894 

2516. Adeline R. Thurber (Charles S.).... " " " Mch. 25, 1885 

2517. Elizabeth K. Cozzens (wid. Theo.).. " " " Nov. 14, 1889 

2518. Charles E. Little " " " Jan. 21, 1880 

2519. Ida G. Little (Charles E.) " " " Jan. 21, 1880 

2520. Dudley Phelps " " " 

2521. Maria C. Shepard (wid. T. M.) " " " Dec. 23, 1881 

2522. Gorham A. Worth " " " 

2523. Ida R.Worth (Mrs. Reginald Gordon) " " " April 3, 1895 

2524. Charlotte K. Cozzens " " " Nov. 14, 1881 

2525. Fanny E. Nash " " " 

2526. Harriet E. Nash (Mrs. Frank W. 

Olds) " " " 

2527. Anna M. Nash " " " 

2528. Edgar G. Barratt " " " Feb. 4, 1885 

2529. Laura M. Ward (Mrs.) " " " 

2530. Sarah C. Raynor (J. A.) " " " Feb. 26, 1896 

2531. Eliza P. Raynor (Mrs. J. A. Bush) . . " " " Jan. 30, 1884 

2532. Anna Tweedie " " " April I, 1891 

2533- Montague S. Tweedie " " " April 1, 1891 

2534. Frances M. Whittemore " " " 

2535. Emma J. Turner June 19, 1878 1882 

2536. Eliza B. Hopkins (wid. Archibald) . . " " 

2537. Margaret E. McName " " " 

2538. Harris H. Hayden " " " 

305 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2539. Elizabeth A. W. Tweedie (David ) . . June 19,1878 April 1, 1891 

2540. Carrie B. Johnston (Bartlett S.) Oct. 30, 1878 Mch. 16, 1881 

2541. Henry L. Thompson " " " Aug. 20, 1880 

2542. Flora H. Doughty " " " May 4, 1891 

2543. James T. Mount " " " Oct. 10, 1883 

2544. Union Adams " ' 

2545. Charlotte E. Adams (Union) " " " Feb. 8, 1894 

2546. Elizabeth Gordon (Hamilton S.) " " " 

2547. Franklin A. Gaylord " " " Dec. 3, 1891 

2548. Mary Lox (Mrs.) " " " May 5, 1893 

2549. fames Hood " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2550. William Howard Taylor Jan. 5, 1879 

2551. Mary E. Coney (Dewitt C.) " " " Nov. 10, 1883 

2552. Hubbard Beebe " " " June 21, 1885 

2553. Sarah A. Beebe (wid. Hubbard) " " " Feb. 11, 1887 

2554. Albert Bellany " " " Nov. 23, 1898 

2555. Charlotte E. Bellany (Albert) " " " Nov. 23, 1898 

2556. Friend P. Fitts " " " July 1, 1899 

2557. George Richards " " " Oct. 31, 1894 

2558. Amos H. Trowbridge " " " June 26, 1881 

2559- Julia A. Trowbridge (wid. Amos H.) " " " April 1, 1896 

2560. Mary A. Davis (wid. John A.) " " " April I, 1896 

2561. Harriet C. Trowbridge (Edwin D.). " " " April I, 1896 

2562. Alexander Noel Blakeman " " " Feb. 17, 1886 

2563. Annie D. Brace (Mrs. William A. 

Franklin) " " " Feb. 28, 1883 

2564. Franklin H. Fowler " " " 

2565. Julia J. Fowler (Franklin H.) " " " 

2566. John A. Caldwell " " " July 19, 1900 

2567. Isaac S. Piatt " " " Feb. 7, 1894 

2568. M. Jennie Piatt (Isaac S.) " " " Feb. 7, 1894 

2569. Jeannette A. Sweetzer " " " 

2570. Mary E. Yale (Mrs.) (Mrs. Friend 

P. Fitts) " " " 

2571. Julia A. Davis (Mrs. Edward Willis) " " " Jan. 31, 1894 

2572. Lillian T. Davis (Mrs. Ruford Frank- 

lin) " " " 

2573. John R. Hatch " " " May 10, 1900 

2574- Alma T. Hatch (John R.)..... " " " May io, 1888 

2575. Harriet L. Dunham (Marquise An- 

tonio de Viti de Marco) " " " 

2576. James B. Dill Feb. 26, 1879 Feb. 25, 1881 

2577. David R. Davis " " " Dec. 15, 1880 

2578. Emily V. A. Gibson (wid. Richard P.) 

(Mrs. Emily V. A. Beach) " " " Jan. 12, 1898 

2579. Zoe V. Gibson (Mrs. J. H. Langley) . " " " Jan. 12, 1898 

2580. Anna T. Gibson (Mrs. W. R. Wed- 

derspoon) " " " May 2, 1883 

2581. Kate E. Eaton (wid. George T.) " " " Jan. 25, 1893 

2582. George L. Walker " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2583. Maria P. Walker (George L.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2584. Charles P. Walker " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2585. Henry R. Harris " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2586. Mary Van Nest (Mrs.) (wid. Abra- 

ham R.) " " " Nov. 20, 1879 

306 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2587. John L. Jones, Jr May 4, 1879 Nov. 28, 1894 

2588. Charles Bell " " " Jan. 16, 1884 

2589. Angeline A. Bell (Charles) " " " Jan. 16, 1884 

2590. Stella A. Bell " " " Jan. 16, 1884 

2591. Jenny E. Sweetzer (George D.) " " " Nov. 14, 1897 

2592. Louisa G. Pray (Isaiah F.) " " " 

2593. A. T. Baird (Mrs.) " " " May 6, 1886 

2594. Addie T. Baird '* " " May 6, 1886 

2595. William T. Baird " " " April 2, 1884 

2596. Robert B. Baird " " " Feb. 13, 1884 

2597- Edward P. Baird " " " April 13, 1887 

2598. George D. Baird " " " Oct. 31, 1888 

2599. Elvira K. Trowbridge (Fred. K.) . . . " " " Mch. 31, 1897 

2600. Constance Saltonstal Patton (Will- 

iam L.) " " " Mch. 7, 18S8 

2601. Elizabeth A. Blackmail (Alex. N.).. " " " Feb. 17, 1886 

2602. Hattie L. Bell " " " Jan. 16, 1884 

2603. George D. Sweetzer " " " Aug. 7, 1900 

2604. Albert Taylor " " " 

2605. George B. Bates " " " 

2606. Samuel P. Davies June 29, 1879 Nov. 28, 1894 

2607. Daniel W. Brigham " " " April 2, 1884 

2608. John N. Velders " " " Oct. 18, 1882 

2609. Mrs. Amelia Freeman (wid. John A.) Oct. 27, 1879 Mch. 4, 1885 

2610. Charles H. Stevens " " " Nov. n, 1885 

2611. John Forgie " " " Sept. 19, 1883 

2612. William J. Peck " " " 

2613. Gordon E. Henshaw " " " Nov. 10, 1880 

2614. Isabella Clyde " " " Dec. 28, 1882 

2615. Lilian H. Dunham " " " Oct. 3, 1900 

2616. Helen B. Dunham " " " 

2617. William D. Smith Jan. 4, 1880 Nov. 28, 1894 

2618. Emily Canfield (Horace) " " " April 14, 1880 

2619. Annie A. Kemp (John M.) " " " 

2620. John L. Lister " " " April 14, 1880 

2621. Robert M. Hart " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2622. Jonas R. Nilsen " " " Oct. 14, 1896 

2623. Augustine Barnum " " " 

2624. William Johnston " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

2625. Eliza Johnston (William) " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

2626. Sarah A. Rood " " " April 8, 1896 

2627. William A. Duncan " " " Nov. 15, 1882 

2628. William C. Merritt, Jr " " " Dec. 13, 1882 

2629. John B. Isham " " " Nov. 26, 1884 

2630. /. W. Pine " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2631. David Buick " " " Nov. 1, 1893 

2632. Bowman C. Baker " " " Mch. 7, 1888 

2633. Maggie J. Buckner " " " June 9, 1880 

2634. Joseph H. Lorrimer " " " Oct. 31, 1883 

2635. Union Adams, Jr " " " 

2636. William D. Hatch Mch. 3, 1880 

2637. Lucy C. Hatch (William D.) " " " 

2638. May M. Carey (Henry W.) " " ' Mch. 15, 1882 

2639. Samuel E. Hiscox " " " Aug. 18, 1891 

2640. Elizabeth Hiscox (wid. Samuel E.) . " " " April 1, 1896 

307 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



No. Name. When Received. 

2641. Bartlett S. Johnston Mch. 

2642. Edward A. Strong " 

2643. William A. Kirkwood " 

2644. Henry E. Simmons " 

2645. Anna B. Simmons (Henry E.) " 

2646. William Lawson " 

2647. Gideon C. Segur " 

2648. Alice B. Colcord (Samuel, Jr.) " 

2649. William H. Porter " 

2650. George E. Stewart " 

2651. Donna Maud Turner " 

2652. Mary Louise Smith {Mrs. Joseph F. 

Daly) " 

2653. Scudder Smith " 

2654. Jennie B. Duval {wid. H. H.) " 

2655. Edward W. Duval " 

2656. Caroline C. Haynes April 28, 

2657. Martha M. J. Wagner 

2658. Mrs. Janet Johnston (S. S.) 

2659. Sarah A. Jacobson (Mrs. Frederick 

Stanwood) 

2660. Frances E. Birch 

2661. Elizabeth C. La Fontaine 

2662. Jane Jones 

2663. Susan Jones O' Shire (Mrs.) 

2664. James Blair 

2665. Agnes Barnes (Mrs.) 

2666. Maggie Barnes 

2667. Grace M. Barnes 

2668. Ruel S. Gage 

2669. Addie Gage (Ruel S.) 

2670. Mary S. Johnson 

2671. Bessie S. Mallory 

2672. Ellen E. Mallory 

2673. Samuel B. Allen 

2674. Julia A. Green (N. W.) June 23, 

2675. Clara Green " 

2676. Mason A. Green 

2677. John B. Perkins June 27, 

2678. Jane Baker (Bowman C.) Nov. 

2679- Jane E. Baker (Mrs. T. H. O'Neill) . " 

2680. Henry S. Gulliver " 

2681. William A. Little " 

2682. Charles Daly " 

2683. Charity Daly (Charles) " 

2684. Mary E. Stephens " 

2685. Richard M. Duncan " 

2686. Mrs. Eunice Seaman (R. F.) " 

2687. Henrietta B. Nash {wid. Geo. fF.)..Nov. 

2688. James R. Nash " 

2689. D. Kellogg Baker Dec. 29, 

2690. Helen S. Baker (D. Kellogg) " 

2691. Margaret Brown (wid. Eliphalet) . . . 

2692. Margaret Campbell (wid. James) .... 

2693. Elizabeth W. Webb (C. H.) 

308 



When Removed. 
Mch. 16, 1881 
Dec. 3, 1885 
Oct. 4, 1893 
Dec. 16, 1880 
Dec. 16, 1880 
May 9, 1883 
Dec. 2, 1886 
Dec. 21, 1898 

May 31, 1882 
Sept. 19, 1883 



April 30, 1887 



Nov. 28, 1894 
May 29, 1889 



Dec. 23, 1884 
April 22, 1896 
Nov. 16, 1884 



May 20, 1884 
May 29, 1884 
Sept. 22, 1887 
Mch. 9, 1889 
July 13, 1889 
Mch. 29, 1882 
Nov. 1, 1893 
Nov. 1, 1893 

Nov. 28, 1894 
Dec. 1, 1885 
April 3, 1886 
Sept. 20, 1893 
Mch. 27, 1890 
April 8, 1885 
April 8, 1885 
April 8, 1885 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Jan. 16, 1884 



Dec. 4, 1884 
Oct. 24, 1894 
Nov. 28, 1894 
April 9, 1890 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2694. Emma M. Pinkerton (John L.) Dec. 29, 1880 Mch. 27, 1890 

2695. John Lindley " " " Jan. 17, 1894 

2696. Louisa L. Lindley (John) " " " Jan. 17, 1894 

2697. Edward L. Hart " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2698. Grace Adams Jan. 2, 1881 

2699. Franklin P. Shumway Mch. 30, 1881 Mch. 14, 1895 

2700. Lucy H. Shumway (Franklin P.)... " " " Feb. 12, 1896 

2701. Joseph E. Messenger " " " Sept. 20, 1893 

2702. A. J. Messenger (Joseph E.) " " " Sept. 20, 1893 

2703. Edmund R. Taylor " " " April 21, 1882 

2704. J. Howard Williams " " " April 3, 1890 

2705. Harvey B. Spelman " " " Oct. 10, 1881 

2706. Lucy H. Spelman (wid. Harvey B.). " " " Sept. 7, 1897 

2707. Lucy M. Spelman " " " 

2708. Elbert E. Wadsworth " " " Jan. 24, 1883 

2709. Myra L. Wadsworth (Elbert E.) " " " Jan. 24, 1883 

2710. Elizabeth Martin (Mrs.) " " " 

271 1. Euphemia I. Martin " " " 

2712. Elizabeth Thompson " " " May 29, 1895 

2713. Charles E. Bruce " " " 

2714. Emma M. Bruce (Charles E.) " " " 

2715. Charles C. Lancaster " " " Oct. 26, 1881 

2716. Clifton B. Bull " " " April 20, 1892 

2717. Julia A. Van Dyke (Mrs. Henry E. 

Thomson) " " " April 26, 1893 

2718. Mrs. Jane Miles " " " Aug. 13, 1892 

2719. Susan W. Miles " " 

2720. Francis ColTm April 3, 1881 Nov. 28, 1894 

2721. Ebenezer Howcroft " " " Mch. 30, 1882 

2722. Anna K. Phelps {Mrs. William H. 

Merrill) " " " May 29, 1895 

2723. Hortense A. Carney (Sidney H.) ... .June 1, 1881 July 18, 1892 

2724. Mary E. Burr (Mrs.) " " " 

2725. Margaret B. Burr " " ' 

2726. Mary B. Burr (Mrs. Charles Gilbert 

Mallery) " " " Nov. 8, 1899 

2727. Edward K. Figgis " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2728. Anna E. C. Devoe (Charles) " " " June 12, 1895 

2729. Louise F. Hardenbergh (Thos. E.).. " " " Nov. 29, 1893 

2730. Theodore I. Husted " " " 

2731. Julia Alice Husted (Theodore I.)... " " " 

2732. A. L. Northrup " " " 

2733. Carrie M. Northrup (A. L.) " " " 

2734. Willard H. McGregor June 5, 1881 

2735. Grace H. Bell " " " Jan. 16, 1884 

2736. Jennie Guthrie " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2737. Ella Van Buskirk " " " 

2738. Albert S. O. Dewey " " " June 7, 1882 

2739. Frank B. Carpenter Oct. 2, 1881 

2740. Sydney H. Carney, Jr June 5, 1881 Mch. 28, 1900 

2741. Carrie L. Crossingham " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2742. Addie E. Du Bois (Mrs. Arthur G. 

Elbreg) " " " 

2743. Nathaniel B. Harris Sept. 28, 1881 

2744. James W. Barr " " " April 25, 1888 

309 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2745. William S. Wells Sept. 28, 1881 

2746. Henriette E. B. Lenoir (Mrs.) " " " May 17, 1893 

2747. Charles W. Scribner Nov. 30, 1881 Jan. 28, 1885 

2748. Rufus Adams " " " Dec. 2, 1896 

2749. Adelaide H. Adams (Rufus) " " " Aug. 20, 1894 

2750. Mary Leveridge (Mrs. E. Douglas 

Murphy, Jr.) " " " Nov. 18, 1885 

2751. Hinson C. De Mott Perry (Bertrand 

J.) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2752. Elizabeth T. Robinson (Daniel) " " " Nov. 21, 1900 

2753. Mary H. Parker " " " Sept. 25, 1891 

2754. Lucy L. Beach " " " Sept. 25, 1889 

2755. Charlotte F. Hackley " " " Nov. 6, 1900 

2756. Francis Brown " " " Dec. 5, 1888 

2757. Louise R. Brown (Francis) " " " Dec. 5, 1888 

2758. Harriet Beckingham Feb. 5, 1882 April 2, 1886 

2759. Katie C. Stone (Ambrose E.) " " " 

2760. George Glover " " " Nov. 26, 1890 

2761. Manley A. Raymond " " " 

2762. Mary A. Raymond (Manley A.) " " " April 10, 1896 

2763. Sarah H. Boswell (John H.) " " " Mch. 31, 1897 

2764. Mary E. Hart " " " Nov. 30, 1899 

2765. Emma J. Clow " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2766. Henry M. Kneedler " " " Mch. 1, 1893 

2767. Euphemia P. Mason " " " Aug. 10, 1895 

2768. Catalina M. Adams (wid. James B.). " " " Dec. 2, 1896 

2769. Matthew J. Elgas " " " Oct. 17, 1894 

2770. Sallie Lambert (Mrs. Dickinson W. 

Richards) " " " Nov. 17, 1897 

2771. Albert W. Warden May 29, 1882 Dec. 20, 1893 

2772. Ephraim Cutter " " " Oct. 3, 1894 

2773. Rebecca Cutter (Ephraim) " " " Oct. 3, 1894 

2774. John A. Cutter Mch. 29, 1882 May 29, 1895 

2775. William L. Stowell " " " 

2776. Emma G. H. Knevals (Stephen M.). " " " Mch. 28, 1900 

2777. Jane Louisa Brooks (George W.)... " " " Jan. 19, 1898 

2778. Harry Chalmers " " " Nov. 28, 1884 

2779. William B. Clark " " " Nov. 25, 1885 

2780. Ellen E. Selkirk (wid. William H.). " " " Nov. 3, 1887 

2781. William H. Selkirk April 2, 1882 Jan. 27, 1887 

2782. Mary S. Bremen " " " Nov. 7, 1883 

2783. Amy Sidman " " " Mch. 22, 1894 

2784. Louis O. Angevine " " " 

2785. Anna C. Coney (George E.) May 31, 1882 Jan. 25, 1893 

2786. Mary J. Bigelow (Charles E.) " " " 

2787. Lois M. Stockdale (Mrs.) " " " Dec. 28, 1887 

2788. George T. Stevens " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2789. Harriet W. Stevens (George T.) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2790. Charles W. Stevens June 4, 1882 Oct. 21, 1896 

2791. Frances V. Stevens {Mrs. George T. 

Ladd) " " " 

2792. Martha E. Boe (Mrs. Cann) " " " Feb. 3, 1886 

2793. Anna L. Worth (Mrs. Benson B. 

Sloan) " " " Jan. 28, 1891 

2794. Marie L. Ranke (Mrs.) Oct. 4, 1882 Feb. II, 1892 

310 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2795. Maria W. Bell (wid. John) Oct. 4, 1882 June 16, 1891 

2796. Charles K. Ober " " " Jan. 21, 1891 

2797. Charlotte A. Bell Oct. 8, 1882 Dec. 5. 1893 

2798. Emma P. Bell " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2799. Lucy L. Gillett (wid. Henry C.) Dec. 1, 1882 Nov. 12, 1884 

2800. Fidelia E. Roberts (wid. Horace)... " " " May 11, 1886 

2801. Mary B. Dwight (wid. Henry) " " " June 16, 1893 

2802. William T. Schley " " " Mch. 2, 1892 

2803. Mary R. Schley (William T.) " " " Mch. 2, 1892 

2804. Horatio W. P. Hodson " " " Nov. 28, 1891 

2805. Richard S. Clark " " " Feb. 6, 1885 

2806. Georgia J. Clark (Richard S.) " " " Feb. 6, 1885 

2S07. Benjamin N. Martin " " " Dec. 26, 1883 

2808. David J. Blauvelt " " " Mch. 26, 1896 

2809. Emma L. Blauvelt (David J.) " " " Jan. 19, 1898 

2810. Amelia E. Blauvelt (Mrs. Miller) ..." " " Mch. 29, 1888 

2811. Anna B. Farrier (John M.) " " " Nov. 20, 1889 

2812. John M. Farrier Dec. 3, 1882 Nov. 20, 1889 

2813. Alexander Sinclair " " " Feb. 17, 1886 

2814. Frederick A. Camp " " " Mch. 11, 1890 

2815. Fanny D. Peet (wid. Samuel) Jan. 31, 1883 Feb. 3, 1897 

2S16. Martha E. Carstein (wid. Theodore). " " " Feb. 3, 1897 

2817. Charlotte A. Smith (Mrs. William 

B. Reed) " " " Dec. 29, 1890 

2818. Willis Van Valkenburgh " " " Jan. 16, 1884 

2819. John K. Farwell " " " 

2820. Charlotte L. Farwell (John K.) " " " 

2821. John D. Long " " " 

2822. Edward S. Cornwall Feb. 4, 1883 Feb. 20, 1884 

2823. Emma L. Carroll {Mrs. Francis Dana 

Winslow) " " " Nov. 29, 1899 

2824. Robert B. Baird May 4, 1879 Feb. 13, 1884 

2825. William Bryan Mch. 28, 1883 

2826. Frances McKinley " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2827. James Ross " " " Oct. 22, 1892 

2828. Abby Ross (James) " " " Aug. 17, 1889 

2829. Ella Ross (Mrs. Marcus Eugene 

Downes) " " " 

2830. Reuben W. Ross " " " 

2831. Nellie M. Caldwell (Mrs.) " " " 

2832. J. Sinclair Armstrong " " " Mch. 13, 1895 

2833. Lizzy H. Armstrong (J. Sinclair) ..." " " Mch. 13, 1895 

2834. Augustus D. Ledoux " " " April 26, i88q 

2835. Ella Jardine (James) " " " Sept. 24, 1886 

2836. Katherine Lambert April 1, 1883 

2837. Mary Josephine Daniels " " " Sept. 22, 1887 

2838. Frank B. Mirick " " " Dec. 5, 1900 

2839. Helen A. Mirick " " " 

2840. Gertrude D. Mirick " " " June 7, 1894 

2841. Elizabeth E. Clark (George) June 1, 1883 April 1, 1891 

2842. David D. Davis " " " 

2843. Stowell W. Lincoln " " " Sept. 25, 1890 

2844. David B. Briggs " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2845. Charles A. Jeffers " " " Dec. 10, 1884 

2846. Emma M. Cochran (Jones) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

31 1 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2847. Irving P. Boyd June 1, 1883 

2848. Josephine B. White (George W.)... " " " Mch. 27, 1895 

2849. Margaret R. Agnew (Mrs. Williamjune. 3, 1883 Feb. 1, 1888 

Bunker) 

2850. Josephine B. Rich (Clayton E.) " " " Dec. 12, 1883 

2851. Jennie M. Bell " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2852. Herbert G. Thomson " " " 

2853. Horace C. Foote " " " 

2854. Tacie McD. Harper (Mrs. Wm. D. 

Harper) (wid. Fletcher U.) " " " Mch. 28, 1894 

2855. William D. Harper " " " Mch. 28, 1894 

2856. Carl H. A. Bjerregaard " " " June 5, 1889 

2857. Theodosia Johnston " " " May 29, 1889 

2858. Electa C. Osborne " " " Sept. 5, 1898 

2859. Melinda Foster (wid. W. H.) " " " 

2860. Catharine A. Conkling Oct. 3, 1883 

2861. Fanny Grant " " " Jan. 21, 1883 

2862. Hannah Gray (Moses) " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

2863. George W. Fitch Oct. 7, 1883 Aug. 12, 1890 

2864. Louisa Mount (James T.) May 3, 1876 Oct. 10, 1883 

2865. Alfred D. F. Hamlin Nov. 30, 1883 

2866. Annie Findlay " " " 

2867. Francis S. Wynkoop " " " Sept. 28, 1892 

2868. Sarah F. Wynkoop (Francis S.).... " " " Dec. 28, 1891 

2869. Elizabeth E. Wynkoop " " " Sept. 28, 1892 

2870. Henrietta Wynkoop " " " Sept. 28, 1892 

2871. Harriet M. Richards (George) " " " Oct. 31, 1894 

2872. Lucy Thurber (Mrs.) " " " Jan. 31, 1892 

2873. Pearson (Mrs.) (John J.) " " " June 12, 1885 

2874. Mary Robinson (Mrs.) (wid.) (Mrs. 

George A. Wilson) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2875- Carrie E. Dyer " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2876. Francis D. Stead Jan. 30, 1884 Nov. 28, 1894 

2877- Mary L. Stead (Francis D.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2878. Sarah E. Fairman (James) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2879. Susan M. Warren " " " 

2880. Morris N. Johnson " " " 

2881. Eugene Scribner " " " June 30, 1892 

2882. Stephen T. Gorden " " " Dec. 18, 1890 

2883. Kate Gorden (wid. Stephen T.) (Mrs. 

Thomas Sidwell) " " " 

2884. William S. S. Rowland " " " Jan. 24, 1894 

2885. Lizzie M. Roberts " " " April 30, 1888 

2886. Joseph F. P. Hodson Feb. 3, 1884 

2887. Julia V. Willis " " " Dec. 27, 1893 

2888. Elisabeth White (William H.) " " " July 28, 1885 

2889. Ella B. Daly " " " April 8, 1885 

2890. Helen B. White (wid. Albert M.)... " " " Oct. 17, 1900 

2891. William Philips April 2, 1884 April 5, 1887 

2892. Sarah W. Philips (William) " " " July 24, 1886 

2893. Henry W. Sackett " " " April 25, 1888 

2894. Henry L. Freeland " " " 

2895. Mary Freeland (Henry L.) " " " 

2896. Emma S. Winslow (Edward) " " " Sept. II, 1895 

2897. Henry W. Hulbert " " " Mch. 6, 1889 

312 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

2898. Charles L. Mead April 2, 1884 Aug. 19, 1899 

2899. Isabella S. Mead (Charles L.) " " " 

2900. Henry S. Moore " " " Feb. 15, 1885 

2901. Martha Moore " " " April 27, 1887 

2902. James Fairman " " " April 18, 1900 

2903. George D. Parmly " " " Dec. 28, 1889 

2904. Mary Diefendorf April 6, 1884 Nov. 28, 1894 

2905. Isabel Moore " " " May 6, 1886 

2906. Alice Moore May 28, 1884 Nov. 28, 1900 

2907. Naomi Moore " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

2908. George G. Shelton " " " June 10, 1891 

2909. Ida S. Shelton (George G.) " " " June 10, 1891 

2910. Cora G. Smith (Benjamin E.) " " " Nov. 23, 1892 

291 1. John B. Putnam " " " Feb. 19, 1893 

2912. Julia B. Putnam (wid. John B.) " " " April 26, 1893 

2913. Ida K. S. Wiley (Bradford K.) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2914. Emily Van Volkenburgh (Edward). " " " 

2915. Jeanette Jardine (Mrs.) " " " Mch. 15, 1893 

2916. Martha Viele (Mrs.) " " " Nov. 27, 1889 

2917. Amelia L. Hill (Edward B.) " " " May 29, 1895 

2918. Sarah Simmons (Mrs. John R. 

Waite) " " " 

2919. Susan Simmons (Mrs. Frederick 

Brandstrup) " " " Oct. S, 1887 

2920. Charles F. Richards June 1, 1884 

2921. Ella Calkins (Mrs. Clws. H. Lyon) .. " " " 

2922. Edith Lambert (Mrs. William R. 

Barbour) " " " Mch. 12, 1890 

2923. Florence Bloomfield " " " 

2924. Edith M. Gillies (Mrs. W. R. 

Wheeler) " " " 

2925. Mary T. Everitt (Mrs. Ezra Cornell) " " " April 25, 1894 

2926. Agnes E. Warner " " " Sept. 16, 1896 

2927. Florence A. Gillies " " " Nov. 26, 1890 

2928. Edward J. Brown Oct. 1, 1884 Mch. 22, 1899 

2929. Josephine M. Brown (Edward J.) .. . " " " Aug. 4, 1885 

2930. Catherine L. Lyon " " " Mch. 19, 1890 

2931. Edward P. Lyon " " " Mch. 19, 1890 

2932. John Foulds " " " Oct. 31, 1899 

2933. Eliza B. Foulds (John) " " " 

2934. Arthur Freund Oct. 5, 1884 Nov. 28, 1894 

2935. Hattie F. Porter " " " 

2936. Frederick B. Crane Dec. 3, 1884 Nov. 4, 1885 

2937. Martha M. Wygant (C. looker) " " " Mch. 18, 1891 

2938. William H. Glover " " " 

2939. Sarah L. Glover (George) " " " Nov. 26, 1890 

2940. Elizabeth Lendrum " " " May 17, 1899 

2941. Jessie Reid (Mrs. W. Oxley) " " " May 2, 1900 

2942. Josiah Rich " " " Jan. 12, 1886 

2943- Henrietta W. Lafayette (wid. N. A.) " " " May 30, 1888 

2944. Toyo S. Nishimaki " " " Nov. 8, 1888 

2945. Edward A. Newell " " " 

2946. Eliza A. Newell (Edward A.) " " " 

2947. Mary A. Sloan " " " 

2948. Henry W. Richardson " " " Dec. 14, 1892 

313 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Nam?. When Received. When Removed. 

2949. Catherine S. Richardson (Henry W.)Dec. 3, 1884 Dec. 20, 1893 

2950. Caroline C. Allen (Mrs.) " " " Nov. 21, 1889 

2951. George T. Thompson " " " Dec. 10, 1886 

2952. Sophia M. Thompson (Mrs.) " " " Dec. 10, 1886 

2953. Bertram H. Borden Dec. 7, 1884 Mch. 24, 1897 

2954. Katherine L. Mead " " " 

2955. Cornelia K. Flagg (Thomas J.) " " " April 11, 1894 

2956. Emily L. Flagg " " " April 1 1, 1894 

2957. Jennie Ferguson " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2958. Sidney L. Gulick Jan. 28, 1885 Sept. 20, 1886 

2959. Theodosia E. Rodman (wid. Geo.).. " " " Oct. 20, 1886 

2960. Donald Calder " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2961. Catherine K. Tompkins (Chas. H.). " " " May 28, 1891 

2962. Bessie W. Tompkins " " " May 28, 1891 

2963. Annie L. Whyte " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

2964. Henry Melville " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

2965. Edith T. Robinson (Mrs. Philip Jen- 

nings) Feb. 1, 1885 June 7, 1900 

2966. Gertrude J. Chamberlin " " " 

2967. Pauline Lefler " " " 

2968. Susan A. Scribner (Eugene) April 1, 1885 June 30, 1892 

2969. Dickinson W. Richards " " " Nov. 17, 1897 

2970. John Robertson " " " June 18, 1887 

2971. Alexandrina Robertson (John) " " " June 18, 1887 

2972. Ann A. Parker (Charles G.) " " " Jan. 15, 1890 

2973. Grace A. Parker (Mrs. F. R. Lang- 

dale) " " " Oct. 29, 1885 

2974. Frederick G. Mead " " " April 17, 1889 

2975. Julius S. Gilman " " " Sept. 25, 1891 

2976. Mary W. Gilman (Julius S.) " " " Sept. 25, 1891 

2977. William A. Shelton " " " 

2978. Charles H. Emde " " " Dec. 2, 1886 

2979. Adelia G. McNamee " " " Oct. 31, 1894 

2980. Lydia C. Stanton (wid. Samuel B.). " " " April 26, 1892 

2981. Mary S. Richardson (Samuel W.).. " " " Jan. 18, 1893 

2982. S. Franklin Stanton " " " Jan. 18, 1893 

2983. Emma McC. Forgie (John) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

2984. Harold B. Sherwin April 5, 1885 Dec. 20, 1888 

2985. Florence L. Jordan " " 

2986. Clara Agnes Downey " " " April 17, 1895 

2987. Robert K. Downey " " " 

2988. Madeleine McLean (Mrs. John S. 

Ward, Jr.) " " " " 

2989. George M. Taylor " " " 

2990. Olinda A. Camp " " " Mch. 1 1, 1890 

2991. G. Henry Link " " " Oct. 3, 1894 

2992. Harris B. Fisher " " " 

2993. Virginia Campbell June 3, 1^85 Dec. — , 1887 

2994. Elizabeth Agnew " " " 

2995. Mary Agnew (Mrs. Heinrich Meyn) . " " " 

2996. William J. Swords " " " 

2997. Jane L. Crane (Mrs.) " " " Jan. 30, 189S 

2998. Robert L. Kay " " " Dec. 21, 1892 

2999. Margaret T. Kay (Robert L.) " " " Dec. 21, 1892 

3000. William H. Duval June 7, 1885 

314 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

3001. Evaline M. Thomson June 7, 1885 

3002. Frederick A. Taylor " " " 

3003. Robert L. Boyd Sept. 30, 1885 Feb. 11, 1892 

3004. Harriet D. Boyd (Robert L.) " " " 

3005. Lizzie M. Willis " " " Dec. 27, 1893 

3006. Janet Inglis McLean (John) " " " Nov. 

3007. Lewis S. Judd, Jr Dec. 2, 1885 

3008. Eliza G. Starr " " " Nov. i8, 1 

3009. Russell A. Bigelow " " " Nov. 2, 

3010. John C. Knox " " " Jan. 6, 

3011. Josephine Morss (wid. James) " " " Oct. 14, 

3012. Samuel W. Richardson Dec. 6, 1885 Jan. 18, 

3013. Edward Stuart Cragin " " " Dec. 28, 

3014. Clara B. Pardee (Ensign B.) " 

3015. Claibone W. Kane " " " Nov. 28, : 

3016. Sarah F. Dodge Mch. 29, 1882 Nov. 21, 

3017. Edmund K. Alden Feb. 3, 1886 Jan. n, 

3018. Frank W. Olds " " " 

3019. Dwight W. Hunter " " " 

3020. Cornelia T. Hunter (Dwight W.). .. " " " Mch. 26, 1894 

3021. Frederick K. Blanchard " " " Jan. 11, 1°"" 

3022. Frank M. Davis " " " May 20, ] 

3023. Lizzie McC. Davis (Frank M.) " " " May; 

3024. S. Cythera Twombly (wid. John F.) . " " " Nov.: 

3025. Frances H. Beames (William E.)... " " " Sept. 

3026. James E. Nichols " " " Sept. 

3027. John K. Cilley " " " 

3028. Helen L. Cilley (John K.) " " " May 31, 1895 

3029. Sara E. Leland (Mrs.) " " " Mch. 31, " 

3030. Anna E. Tollman (wid. H. C.) " " " 

3031. Janet Gillies (wid. James) " " " 

3032. Agnes M. Gillies " " " 

3033. Frank S. Evans " " " May 2, 1900 

3034. Emma L. Evans (Frank S.) " " " May 2, 1900 

3035. Irving R. Fisher " " " 

3036. Carrie B. Fisher (Irving R.) " " " 

3037. Jessie T. Loudon Feb. 7, 1886 Oct. 24, 1888 

3038. Frederick W . Loudon " " " Oct. 24, 1S88 

3039. John F. Twombly " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3040. Grace M. Marshall (Mrs. John H. 

Kimble') " *' " 

3041. Annie Michel " " " Nov. 19, 1890 

3042. Frances Colby (William H.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

3043. James A. Trowbridge Mch. 31, 1886 Jan. 8, 1896 

3044. Jeanie N. Trowbridge (James A.)... " " " Jan. 8, 1896 

3045. Frederick E. Fuller " " " Oct. 23, 1889 

3046. Charles Bell " " " Mch. 19, 1891 

3047- Angeline A. Bell (Charles) " " " Oct. 25, 1899 

3048. Stella A. Bell " " " Oct. 25, 1899 

3049. Grace H. Bell (Mrs. Frank Russell 

Johnson) " " " Sept. 24, 1894 

3050. Catherine B. Burr April 4, 1886 Oct. 23, 1889 

3051. Emma J. Wiswall (Joseph C.) " " " 

3052. Lucy Florence Browning (Mrs. Geo. 

P.Biggs) " " " 

315 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

3053. James Hopkins April 4, 1886 

3054. Henry J. Whittemore " " " Oct. 28, 1891 

3055. Edward H. Noice, Jr " " " 

3056. William D. Thomson " " " 

3057. Herbert H. Griff en " " " Nov. 19, 1897 

3058. Emma Anderson (wid. David) June 1, 1886 Oct. 31, 1888 

3059. Emma Anderson " " " Oct. 31, 1888 

3060. James F .McDonald " " " Mch. 23, 1892 

3061. George N. Sanders " " " Oct. 5, 1887 

3062. Martin L. Lee " " " Feb. 1, 1899 

3063. Marion B. Lee (Martin L.) " " " Feb. 1, 1899 

3064. Ellen Dalrymple (wid. Alexander).. " " " April 3, 1895 

3065. Cora L. Graham (L. F.) June 6, 1886 Jan. 24, 1893 

3066. Ruth Lambert (Mrs. Knight D. 

Cheney) " " " 

3067. Walter BloomHeld " " " 

3068. Helen E. Noice (Edward H.) " " " 

3069. Christian Scheel " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

3070. Kate Van Volkenburgh (Mrs. Rob- 

ert A. Sands) " " " 

3071. George W. Brooks " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3072. Albert Shunk Sept. 29, 1886 Mch. 27, 1889 

3073. William N. Hendrie Dec. 1, 1886 Sept. 26, 1894 

3074. Oliver K. Corsa " " " 

3075. Eleanor W. Corsa (Oliver H.) " " " 

3076. Walter M. Barrows " " " Nov 21 1888 

3077. Mary D. Barrows (Walter M.) " " " Nov. 21, 1888 

3078. Margaret H. Porter (William H.) . .Dec. 5, 1886 

3079. Andrew G. Thomson " " " 

3080. Isabella Thomson (Andrew G.) " " " 

3081. Isabella A. Adams (Albert) " " " Nov. 21. 1894 

3082. Horace A. Keith " " " 

3083. Elijah A. Keith " " " Nov. 19, 1891 

3084. John S. Warren " " " 

3085. Sarah B. Warren (John S.) " " " 

3086. Grace J. Coe (wid. Samuel G.) Feb. 2, 1887 Nov. 28, 1894 

3087. Jessie L. Miller (Mrs. Alex. Nicol).. " " " Nov 4 1891 

3088. Alexander Tison " " " 

3089. Mary E. Hayes « " » Mch. 23, 1892 

3090. Cornelia G. Hayes " " " Nov. 27, 1889 

3091. Jennie M. Greene (Lewis D.) " " " 

3092. Harry D. Sheldon " " " Dec ■; 1888 

3093- Pamela W. Lyall (William) " " " 

3094- Philo P. Safford " " •' Feb 21 1891 

3095. David Jardine Feb. 6, 1887 June 3,' 1892 

3096. Mary L. Jardine (wid. David) " " " Sept. 11, 1895 

3097. Mary E. Lyall « « « Sept. 18 1892 

3098. Jennette L. Lyall " « " 

3099. Kittie E. Lyall .....'. " " " 

3100. William P. Seymour .... " " '< 

3101. Isabella D. Armstrong (Mrs. J. E. 

L. Davis) " « « -p e u K T o Q f. 

3102. Winfield D. Loudon " » « Oct' 24 1888 

3103. Frederick Robbins " " " Feb 7' 1801 

3104. Henry W. Willis « « « Nov. 28, 1894 

316 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

3105. George 0. Gaidsakian {name changed 

to George H. Godson) Feb. 6, 1887 

3106. Fannie E. Reynolds " " " Oct. 13, 1899 

3107. Hattie A. Reynolds " " " 

3108. Lida Germaine " " " 

3109. Louise Germaine {Mrs. George P. 

Cashing) " " " June 12, 1895 

3110. Mary W. H. Hesland " " " 

3111. Edward W. North Mch. 30,1887 Jan. 22, 1890 

3112. Alexander Callender " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

3113- William Gordon " " " Oct. 8, 1887 

3114. Janet Gordon (William) " " " Oct. 8, 1887 

3115. Jennie L. Foster April 3, 1887 

3116. William C. Liddell " " " April 18, 1888 

3117. Louise de Forest Haynes " " " Nov. 21, 1900 

3118. Kate C. Miller " " " Nov. 28, 189 1 

3119. Lawrence P. Adams " " " 

3120. Jessie Cameron " " " 

3121. Charles L. Taylor " " " Dec. 1, 1897 

3122. Harriet S. Bartlett June 1, 1887 Mch. 12, 1890 

3123. Jennie Bartlett " " " 

3124. William B. Macdonald " " " Jan. 22, 1890 

3125. Silas H. Paine " " " 

3126. Mary S. Paine (Silas H.) " " " 

3127. Anna Weir " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3128. Jessie Weir " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3129. Fannie Weir " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3130. Harriet Gardiner (wid. Thomas) " " " Sept. 27, 1893 

3131. Emma Gardiner " " " Sept. 27, 1893 

3132. Florence Gardiner " " " Sept. 27, 1893 

3133. Hattie Gardiner June 5, 1887 Sept. 27, 1893 

3134. Frederick Gardiner " " " Sept. 27, 1893 

3135. Eleanor B. Weir " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3136. George B. Corsa " " " 

3137. Emily Knevals " " " 

3138. Charles M. Demond Sept. 28, 1887 

3139. Sylvester S. Bliss " " " April 26, 1893 

3140. Anna M. Phelps (George) " " " 

3141. Henry Gray Oct. 2, 1887 

3142. Albert A. Johnson, Jr " " " May 2, 1894 

3143. Mary E. Lyon (Edward P.) Nov. 30, 1887 Mch. 19, 1890 

3144. Lizzie F. Childs (H. C.) " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

3145- George M. Swift " " " Oct. 23, 1895 

3146. Bessie P. E. Swift (George M.) " " " Oct. 23, 1895 

3147. Sarah C. Neal " " " Mch. 28, 1891 

3148. Trumbull W. Cleaveland " " " 

3149. Antoinette H. Cleaveland (Trum- 

bull W.) " " " 

3150. Thomas G. Cumnock " " " 

3151. Mary J. Odell " " " Oct. 28, 1896 

3152. Emily Cole " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

3153- Alfred G. Reeves " " " Nov. 21, 1889 

3154. Jessie Bernd {Mrs. Jos. H. Bryan) . .Dec. 4, 1887 

3155- M. H. Levonian " " " June 1,1888 

3156. Marion Anderson " " " Sept. 26, 1894 

317 



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3157. 
3158. 
3IS9- 
3160. 
3161. 
3162. 
3163. 
3164. 
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3166. 
3167. 
3168. 
3169. 
3170. 
3171. 

3172. 
3173. 
3174- 
3175. 
3176. 
3177. 
3178. 
3179- 
3180. 
3181. 
3182. 
3183. 
3184. 



3190. 
3I9I- 
3192. 
3193- 
3194- 
3I9S. 
3196. 
3197. 
3198. 
3199. 
3200. 
3201. 
3202. 
3203. 
3204. 
3205. 
3206. 
3207. 
3208. 
3209. 
3210. 



William L. Evans 

Annie H. Evans (William L.) 

Alexander S. McLeod 

Richard Cox 

Mary E. Cox (Richard) 

Mary L. Cox 

Mary A. Fay (Thomas) 

Martha A. Churchill (Newton)... 

Ross W. Weir 

William B. Weir 

Hagob Nazarian 

Guy Maine 

Lincoln C. Shuey 

Ella F. Washburn Feb. 5, 1888 

Emma R. Shortmeyer {Mrs. Cornelius 

Beck) " " " 

Joseph H. Bryan " " " 

Alexander Lang Mch. 28, 1888 

Mary S. Lang (Alexander) " " " 

Alice M. Reynolds " " " 

Alice Emmons " " " 

William A. Cole " " " 

Mary E. Cole (wid. William A.).... " " " 

Mary Anna Cole " " " 

Motochica Tsuda " " " 

Fanny Hastings (Thomas S.) " " " 

Thomas Hastings " " " 

Henry De G. Hastings " " " 

Isabel Hastings " " " 

Louis F. Bishop April 1, 1888 

Charles W. Lyman " " " 

Arthur H. Cilley " " " 

Mildred S. Pillsbury " " " 

Annie Griff en " " " 

Evalina H. Fairman May 23, 1888 

George E. Rumple " " " 

James T. Brinckerhoff " " " 

Frank Russell " " " 

Aurelia H. Russell (Frank) " " " 

Pauline M. Russell " " " 

Herbert D. Russell " " " 

Frank H. Russell " " " 

Burt N. Bridgman " " " 

Ellen B. Spofford (Mrs.) " " " 

Guy R. McLane May 27, 1888 

Jane Simmons {Mrs. W. E. Sayre) . . " " " 

Ruf us T. Lincoln " " " 

Nathaniel Michel " " " 

Mary A. Marsteller {Levi H.) " " " 

Margaret Gray {Mrs. Thos. Rollands) " " " 

Julia Fritsch {Mrs. Henry Gray) " " " 

Mary E. Daniels " " " 

Mary Beecher Nov. 28, 1888 

John F. Barry " " " 

Sarah A. Barry (John F.) " " " 

318 



When Removed. 
Sept. 20, 1893 
Sept. 20, 1893 
July 9, 1888 
April 10, 1897 
Nov. 28, 1900 
Nov. 28, 1900 
Mch. 22, 1893 
Mch. 22, 1893 
Feb. 9, 1898 

May io, 1888 
Mch. 27, 1890 
Oct. 21, 1891 
Nov. 28, 1894 



Nov. 1, 1893 

Mch. 21, 1900 
April 15, 1889 
Mch. 18, 1891 
Mch. 18, 1891 
Nov. 8, 1894 
May 24, 1893 
May 24, 1893 
Feb. 16, 1893 
May 24, 1893 
Jan. 25, 1893 
Nov. 28, 1900 

Nov. 1, 1893 
Oct. 21, 1896 
May 4, 1891 

Dec. 30, 1891 
Dec. 30, 1891 
Dec. 30, 1891 
Dec. 25, 1889 
Dec. 30, 1 89 1 
Oct. 25, 1899 



July 15, 1890 
Nov. 19, 1890 
April 17, 1893 
Nov. 28, 1900 

Nov. 28, 1894 
July 9, 1893 



Chronological List of Members 

j^o Name. When Received. When Removed. 

3211. Emma D. Van Vleck (Mrs.) Nov. 28, 1888 Oct. 21, 1896 

3212. Jasper Van Vleck " " " June 7. 1894 

3213. Anthony T. Buchanan " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

3214. Frederic G. Smedley " " " Mch. 18, 1896 

3215. Emma Z. Smedley (Frederic G.) " " " Mch. 18, 1896 

3216. Walter O. Whitcomb " " " Nov. 8, 1894 

3217. Annie A. Reed (Mrs. Arthur A. 

Swany) " " " Jan. 13, 1891 

3218. Mary A. Dorman (Richard A.) " " " 

3219. Nellie W. Keith (Horace A.) " " " 

3220. Margaret Anna Williams " " " Sept. 25, 1889 

3221. Cephas Brainerd, Jr " " " July 24, 1898 

3222. Harriet Arnold Brainerd (Cephas, 

3223. Emma Gilson (wid. William H.) " " " Dec. 27, 1892 

3224. Fanny Elizabeth Gilson (Mrs. George 

W. Terriberry) " " " 

3225. William N. Gilson " " " 

3226. Walter Gilson " " " 

3227. Mary J. Griffith (G. W.) " " " June 5, 1899 

3228. Margarette E. Griffith " " " 

3229. Susan D. Griffith " " " 

3230. Mary J. Griffith " " " Dec. 21, 1900 

3231. Charles Emmons Jan. 30, 1889 

3232. Ella J. Emmons " " " 

3233. Caroline T. Lincoln (R. P.) " " " 

3234. Anna H. Tyler " " " 

3235. Charles Dresback " " " June 19, 1891 

3236. Catherine A. Dresback (wid. Chas.). " " " June 8, 1892 

3237. Irving C. Gaylord " " " 

3238. John K. Pirrie " " " June 7, 1893 

3239. Lillian M. Keith (Elijah A.) " " " Nov. 19, 1891 

3240. James Girvan " " " Nov. 23, 1892 

3241. L. Scott Kemper " " " 

3242. Christina Grant " " " Jan. 30, 1895 

3243. Kenneth J. Muir " " " Oct. 8, 1890 

3244. Jane M. Miller (Mrs.) " " " Feb. 22, 1893 

3245. Franklin H. Warner Feb. 3, 1889 

3246. Lucien T. Warner " " " 

3247. Griffith W. Griffith " " " Jan. 2, 1891 

3248. Edward Hammann " " " 

3249. Anna W. Whitcomb (Walter 0.) .. . " " " Nov. 8, 1894 

3250. Marguerite L. Winslow " " " Sept. 11, 1895 

3251. Nellie Y. Taylor (John S.) " " " 

3252. Eliza White (Mrs.) April 3, 1889 Oct. 10, 1894 

3253. Larkin G. Mead April 7, 1889 

3254. Joseph Darwin Nagel " " " Feb. 25, 1891 

3255. Anna C. Rumrill (wid. Marshall) . . . May 29, 1889 

3256. Hannah P. Miller (James W.) " " " Feb. 3, 1892 

3257. Arthur L. Mitchell " " " Jan. 15, 1890 

3258. Helen Brown (Mrs. Francis Allan) . " " " June 17, 1896 

3259. Sarah H. Abegg (Henry) " " " 

3260. David Cathro " " " Oct. 23, 1895 

3261. J. J. Carrier (Miss) " " " 

3262. Robert L. Maitland " " " 

319 



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3266. 
3267. 
3268. 
3269. 
3270. 
3271. 
3272. 
3273- 
3274. 
3275- 
3276. 
3277- 
3278. 
3279- 
3280. 



3285. 



3290. 
3291. 
3292. 
3293- 
3294- 
3295- 
3296. 
3297- 
3298. 
3299- 
3300. 
3301. 
3302. 
3303- 
3304- 
3305. 
3306. 
3307. 



3309. 
3310. 

33". 
3312. 
3313. 
3314- 
3315. 
33i6. 



Name. When Received. 

Oliver O. Howard May 29, 1889 

Elizabeth A. Howard (Oliver O.)... " " " 

Bessie Howard " " " 

James W. Howard " " " 

Harry S. Howard " " " 

John Howard " " " 

James W. Miller June 2, 1889 

S. Frances Bates " " " 

Louisa Johnson 

Ella F. Johnson " ' 

Florence Annette Bryant " " ' 

Hortense A. Carney " ' 

Harry 0. Logue " " ' 

Edward O. Lyman " " " 

Charlotte Sage (wid. William H.)..Oct. 2, 1889 

William G. Sage " 

Julia C. Sage " " " 

Charles L. Bliss " " " 

James Whyte Oct. 6, 1889 

Ellen R. Jones {Mrs. Jos. Whyte) ... " " " 

Henry Da Costa " " " 

William S. Morton Nov. 27, 1889 

Minnie F. M. Hamlin (Alfred D. F.) " " " 

James W. McLane " " " 

Adelaide L. McLane (James W.) . . . . " " " 

Thomas L. Hamilton " " " 

Charlotte M. Hamilton {Thomas L.) . Dec. 1, 1889 

William H. Foster " " " 

Francis Allan " " " 

Thomas S. McLane " " " 

Caroline A. Cochran " " " 

Jerusha A. Marshall Jan. 29, 1890 

William Charles " " " 

Sarah E. Douglass (wid. David).... " " " 

Clara Douglass " " " 

Anna D. Ballantine (William) " " " 

Janet R. Chesney " " " 

Emma E. Schneider " " " 

Emma H. Smedley Feb. 2, 1890 

Thomas S. Hope Simpson April 2, 1890 

L. Henry Cobb " " " 

Harriet J. Cobb (L. Henry) " " " 

Cortez Nelson " " " 

John G. Voorhees " " " 

Anna C. Voorhees (John G.) " " " 

Carrie C. Voorhees (Mrs. Roland C. 

Cook) " " " 

Anna A. Voorhees " " " 

Emma V. Worstell (wid. Gaylord M.) " " 

Julia R. V. Driggs " " " 

Eben Peek " " " 

Mary L. A. Peek (Eben) " " " 

Lotta L. Peek (Mrs. H. Palmer King) " " " 

John Robertson " " " 

Alexandrina Robertson (John) " " " 

320 



When Removed. 
June 12, 1895 
June 12, 1895 
June 12, 1895 
Nov. 28, 1891 
June 12, 1895 
Mch. 10, 1897 
Feb. 3, 1892 
May 28, 1893 
Jan. 9, 1895 
Jan. 9, 1895 



Dec. 7, 1892 

Sept. 25, 1890 

Dec. 26, 1894 

Dec. 26, 1894 

Dec. 26, 1894 

Jan. 1, 1896 

Mch. 4, 1891 

Mch. 4, 1 89 1 

May 15, 1895 

Nov. 12, 1891 



June 17, 18c 



Sept. 30, 1896 
Nov. 28, 1894 
Dec. 7, 1898 
Dec. 7, 1898 
Sept. 27, 1893 
Dec. 12, 1894 
Nov. 15, 1892 
Mch. 18, 1896 



Mch. 6, 1895 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

3317. Peter B. Shields April 2, 1890 

3318. Anne P. Roe (wid. Edward P.) " " " Dec. 1, 1897 

3319. Martha F. Roe (Mrs. Edgar G. 

Benedict) 

3320. Annie Fish " " Dec. 14, 1898 

3321. Jessie B. Knevals (Charles P.) " " " 

3322. Charles P. Knevals April 6, 1890 

3323. Mary Estelle Newell " " " Nov. 16, 1892 

3324. Josephine A. Everitt (Mrs. Charles 

R. Morson) " " " April 15, 1896 

3325. Albina Yale (Mrs. Ed. J. Wheeler) .. " " " 

3326. Florence Voorhees " 

3327. Florence Ward " " " 

3328. Julia Trowbridge Seymour " " " Jan. 22, 1899 

3329. Bertha Whittemore " " " Oct. 28, 1891 

3330. Marion E. Piatt " " " Feb. 7, 1894 

3331. Mary B. Hull " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

3332. Harvey M. Munsell " " " 

3333- Mary C. Munsell (Harvey M. )...... " " " Nov. 13, 1890 

3334. Mary Isabel Munsell " " " 

3335- Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr " " " 

3336. Sadye T. Roe " " " Mch. 2, 1892 

3337. Edward P. Cutter " " " June 11, 1898 

3338. Louisa F. Boyd (Samuel M.) " " " Oct. 14, 1896 

3339- Grace May Hodson " " 

3340. Frank B. Newell " " " 

3341. George W. Jordan " " " 

3342. Robert J. McNickle May 28, 1890 Mch. 28, 1894 

3343. Deivi H. Jones " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

3344. George B. Sterling " " " Jan. 26, 1898 

3345. Frances L. Taintor (Henry F.) " " " Mch. 29, 1893 

3346. John Ostrander June 1, 1890 Nov. 28, 1894 

3347. Grace M. Sinclair " " " Oct. 4, 1893 

3348. J. Miller Crampton Oct. 1, 1890 Nov. 15, 1895 

3349. Susie F. Crampton (wid. J. Miller) . . " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3350. Fannie W. Embree (wid. Geo. W.)..Dec. 3, 1890 Jan. 17, 1894 

3351. Emily W. Bowne (Edward R.) " " " Jan. 17, 1894 

3352. Matthew S. Borden Dec. 7, 1890 

3353- Julia E. Haven (wid. Carolus) Jan. 28, 1891 April 12, 1893 

3354. Eliza S. Haven " " " April 12, 1893 

3355- Julia Haven " " " April 12, 1893 

335554. Robert B. Fleming " " " 

3356. Mary A. Fleming (wid. Wm. E.)... " " " 

3357. Charles D. Brooks " " " 

3358. James H. McCurdy " " " Oct. 23, 1895 

3359. Mary A. Pirrie (John K.) " " " April 12, 1893 

3360. Edith J. Hawley (Mrs. Williams) . . . Feb. I, 1891 June 6, 1894 

3361. Sarah Hawley (Mrs. T. Halsted 

Myers) " " " 

3362. James Taylor Harrington " " " 

3363. Carrie E. Grace " " " 

3364. Shukrae Amir Alian April 1, 1891 Sept. 28, 1892 

3365. Dorman T. Warren " " " Nov. 11, 1896 

3366. Harriet C. Warren (Dorman T.)... " " " Nov. 11, 1896 
3367- Joseph Singleton " " " 

321 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

jj Name When Received. When Removed. 

3368. Henrietta E. Singleton (Joseph). .. .April 1, 1891 April 23, 1894 

3369. Fung Hong " " ( " 

3370. Ju Yuk u u <( 

3371. Chu Shuey 

3372. Howard S. Borden April 5, 1891 

3373. Charles T. Van Winkle " Nov. 28, 1894 

3374. Alfred R. Thoman " ' " Dec. 8, 1897 

3375- Jane Wallace Piatt June 7. 1891 Feb. 7, 1894 

3376. Marie B. Poole 

3377. John S. Macnab Sept. 30, 1891 Dec. 2, 1896 

3378. Jeanie G Macnab (John S.) " " " Dec. 2, 1896 

3379. Archibald M. Stewart " " " April 11, 1894 

3380. Agnes O. Stewart (Archibald M.).. " " " April 11, 1894 

3381. John Smith " " " Nov. 21, 1894 

3382. Emma Bogardus Dec. 2, 1891 

3383- John Douglas 

3384. Oscar G. Harrison " " " Jan. 14, 1894 

3385. Robert C. Hamilton " " " Nov. 28, 1894 

3386. Gilberta A. Dallas (Alexander) " " " Sept. 26, 1894 

3387. Seth M. Milliken Dec. 6, 1891 Oct. 21, 1896 

3388. Francis B. Elgas " " " Oct. 17, 1894 

3389. William Taylor Elgas " " " Oct. 17, 1894 

3390. Matthew J. Elgas, Jr " " " Oct. 17, 1894 

3391. William L. Russell Feb. 3, 1892 Nov. 28, 1900 

3392. Benjamin J. Jarrett " " " May 30, 1894 

3393- Francis Caruthers Feb. 7, 1892 Nov. 12, 1893 

3394. Charles W. White Mch. 30, 1892 Feb. 14, 1894 

3395. George S. Edgell " " " 

3396. Oliver C. Gardiner " " " Oct. 31, 1892 

3397. Amos H. Stephens June i, 1892 

3398. Alexander McCubbin " " " April 22, 1896 

3399. Alison M. B. McCubbin (Alex.) " " " April 22, 1896 

3400. Gertrude Moore Pierce (John) Sept. 28, 1892 May 27, 1893 

3401. William L. Thacher Nov. 30, 1892 

3402. Charles P. Hallock " " " Jan. 9, 1895 

3403. John Thorne Feb. I, 1893 Oct. 21, 1896 

3404. Ann A. Thorne (John) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3405. Emma Scherb " " " 

3406. Elizabeth C. Warner Feb. 5, 1893 

3407. Laura A. Barrett Mch. 30, 1893 

3408. Alexander S. McLeod " " " Mch. 25, 1896 

3409- Mabel L. Johnson April 2, 1893 May 2, 1894 

3410. Alice H. Robinson " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3411. Margaret H. Kemp (George W.)...June 4, 1893 

3412. Jeanie Macnab " " " Nov. 14, 1894 

3413. Amelia C. Dailey " " " Feb. 3, 1897 

3414- Vieva P. Fisher (Joel E.) " " " 

3415- Louise E. Stowell (William L.) " " " 

3416. Henry A. Stimson " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3417- Alice B. Stimson (Henry A.) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3418. Alice M. Stimson " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3419- Julia C. Stimson " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3420. Grace B. Marshall (wid. Robert) " " " 

3421. Fannie P. Carstein " " " Feb. 3, 1897 

3422. Ferdinand S. Carstein " " " Feb. 3, 1897 

322 



Chronological List of Members 



No. Name. When Received. 


When Removed. 




4, 1893 










3425. Walter M. Phillips " 


" " 


Nov. 28, 1900 








3427. Charles A. Bruce " 


" " 




3428. Martin H. Early Oct. 


8, 1893 




3429. Clarence W. Bowen " 




Oct. 21, 1896 


3430. Roxanna W. Bowen (Clarence W.) . . " 


" " 


Oct. 21, 1896 


3431. Will A. Babbit " 


" " 


June 19, 1895 


3432. Edwin F. Tripp " 


" " 


Jan. 15, 1896 


3433- Waldo H. Sherman " 


" " 




3434. Abbie P. Sherman (Waldo H.) " 






3435. Clarence W. Eckardt " 


" " 




3436. May P. Harrison (wid. Oscar G.)... " 


" " 


April 15, 1896 








3438. Annie E. McCubbin " 


" 


April 22, 1896 








3440. Mary J. Little (Francis) Dec. 


3, 1893 


Mch. 30, 1898 


3441. Henry A. Newell, Jr " 




Oct. 21, 1896 


3442. Mary F. Newell (Henry A., Jr.) " 




Oct. 2i, 189*0 






Oct. 21, 1896 










Oct. 21, 1896 


3446. Chester Holcombe " 




3447. Olive K. Holcombe (Chester) " 


" " 


July 28, 1896 


3448. Margaret Smith (John) " 


" " 


Nov. 14, 1900 


3449. Hubert E. Rogers " 


" " 


April 8, 1896 


3450. Ellen C. Parsons " 






3451. Fred H. Meserve " 


" " 


Oct. 21, 1896 


3452. Eugene C. Savidge " 






3453. Isaac D. Blodgett " 


" " 




3454. Mary L. Blodgett (Isaac D.) " 


" " 




3455. Harnette M. Blodgett " 






3456. Adelbert L. Eastman " 


" " 




3457- Josephine A. Eastman (Adelbert L.) " 












3459- Jane Taylor McKewan (J. P.) " 


" " 




3460. Talemadge S. Hand " 




Feb. 8, 1899 


3461. Katherine W. Hand (Talemadge S.) " 


" " 


Feb. 8, 1899 


3462. Harrington S. Paine " 






3463. Jeannie L. Jillson Feb. 


4, 1894 


Oct. 21, 1896 


3464. Henri P. Hoffer " 






3465. Clarence E. Dobbin " 




Oct. 21, 1896 








3467. Isabel McKinstry (Robert) " 






3468. Chu Fu Kin Pai " 






3469. Julia B. Sutton " 




Nov. 18, 1896 


3470. Catherine L. Everitt (wid. Edward) . " 










May 29, 1895 


3472. Amelia Freeman (wid. Alfred) " 








Jan. 18, 1899 


3474. Hermine J. Wedekind " 




3475- Bella C. Lyall " 






3476. Ernest N. Weston April 


1, 1894 




3477. George L. Leonard " 






323 







History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 

jg- Name. When Received. When Removed. 

3478. James E. Simmons April 1, 1894 Jan. 8, 1897 

3479. Charles A. A. During " " " Junes, 1890 

3480. Jane During (Charles A. A.) " " Junes, 1896 

3481. Charles E. Mitchell " " " 

3482. Cornelia E. Mitchell (Charles E.)... " " " 

3483. George H. Mitchell " " ' 

3484. Madeline Warren {Mrs. Harris B. 

Fisher) " " ' 

3485. Helen Lincoln " " " t 

3486. Mary A. Downey 

3487. John Irving Downey " " " 

3488. Francis R. Parker 

3489. William G. Pilgrim " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3490. Charles L. Thome June 3, 1894 Mch. 28, 1900 

3491. William H. Whitney " " " Feb. 26, 1896 

3492. Emma G. Whitney (William H.)... " " " Feb. 26, 1896 

3493. Frederick E. Hawkesworth " " " Sept. 26, 1894 

3494. Charles H. Shepherd " " " 

3495. Daisy F. Rockwell " " " Sept. 30, 1896 

3496. Leonora Weigel (wid. Alfred) " " " 

3497. Mabel C. Mead " " " 

3498. Alfred Vedder Oct. 7, 1894 

3499. Charles R. Morson " " " April 15, 1896 

3500. Frederick I. Voss " " " April 19, 1899 

3501. Mary J. Fisk (wid. Henry B.) Dec. 2, 1894 Dec. 9, 1896 

3502. Elizabeth L. Ely " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3503. Mary E. Lucas (George C.) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3504. Susan M. Ketcham " " " Oct. 7, 1896 

3505. Mira C. Healy " " " Feb. 17, 1897 

3506. Stephen Young Feb. 3, 1895 Nov. 28, 1900 

3507. Aurora T. Green (Horace) " " " 

3508. Linna C. Bixby (A. William) " " " Dec. 30, 1896 

3509. Thomas A. Fair " " " 

3510. Annie C. Fair (Thomas A.) " " " 

3511. Frank L. Underwood " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3512. Theodosia S. Underwood (Frank L.) " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3513. Grace H. Underwood " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3514. Nellie L. Simmons (John P.) " " " May 26, 1897 

3515. Carl J. Carlberg " " " Mch. 24, 1897 

3516. Lillian Kemp " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3517- Maude F. Reynolds April 7, 1895 Mch. 29, 1899 

3518. Anselm Schaff " " " Oct. 28, 1896 

3519. Lucile H. Stimson " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3520. Frederick G. Hodson " " " 

3521. Bernard Angel June 2, 1895 

3522. Fanny B. Angel (Bernard) Oct. 6, 1895 

3523- Helen E. Dana June 2, 1895 Oct. 21, 1806 

3524. Emma L. Dana " " " Oct. 21, 1896 

3525. Edith Hoover Oct. 6, 1895 Sept. 29, 1897 

3526. Elvina Grosjean June 2, 1895 Feb. 17, 1897 

3527. Helen Wilson " " " 

3528. Alvan W. Perry Oct. ■ 6, 1895 

3528^. William R. Arnold " " " Nov. 16, 1898 

3529. Sophia A. Walker (Mrs.) Dec. 1. 1895 Oct. 21, 1896 

3530. Isabella Ditjen (Mrs.) " " " 

324 



Chronological List of Members 

No. Name. When Received. When Removed. 

3531. Shearjashub Bourne Dec. 1, 1895 Oct. 21, 3~ 

3532. Susan K. Bourne (Shearjashub) " " " Oct. 21, 3 

3533. Edgar K. Bourne " " " Oct. 21, 

3534. Sydney H. Bourne " " " Oct. 21, 

3535. Mary J. Bourne " " " Oct. 21, 

3536. Rose M. Bourne " " " Oct. 21, 3 

3537- John W. Follett " " " Oct. 21, 3 

3538. Augusta M. Follett (John W.) " " " Oct. 21, 

3539. Bessie A. Follett " " " Oct. 21, 

3540. Arthur Toan " " " Feb. 17, 

3541. Nathaniel M. Pratt " " " Mch. 31, 1897 

3542. Ellen W. Dimmick " " " 

3543. Margaret Gunn Feb. 2, 1896 Nov. 28, ?'" 

3544. Stephen Shahzadeyian " " " July 8, : 

3545. Nishan M. Boyajian " " " Mch. 10, : 

3546. Garabed Sachaklian " " " April 12, 1 

3547. Cornelius Beck " " " Oct. 21, 

3548. Roland C. Cook " " " 

3549. Charles B. Bliss April 5, 1896 

3550. James Martin " " " 

3551. Margaret T. Martin (James) " " " 

3552. Margaret E. Martin " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3553- Jospehine J. Martin " " " Nov. 28, 1900 

3554. Isabella W. Siegrist (Mrs. John) " " " 

3555. Emily E. Siegrist " " " 

3556. Agnes L. Fish " " " Oct. 25, 1899 

3557- Grace Ives Washburn " " " 

3558. Edith Waid " " " 

3559. Abigail Kean (wid. James) June 7, 1896 Mch. 29, 1899 

3560. Ida M. Salmon (Mrs. Robert S. 

Stapleton) Dec. 6, 1896 

3561. Edward W. Peet " " " 

3562. Lucy H. Peet (Edward W.) " " " 

3563. Kwai F. Pang Feb. 7, 1897 

3564. Ella R. McCloy (William H.) " " " 

3565. William H. McCloy " " " 

3566. Tom Leng " " " 

3567. William E. Chamberlin April 4, 1897 

3568. Cyrus W. Minor " " " 

3569. Jennie A. Minor (Cyrus W.) " " " 

3570. Herbert D. Minor " " " 

3571. Grace E. Lowe June 6, 1897 Sept. 13, 1899 

3572. Elisha V. Bladen " " " 

3573- Irving R. Fisher, Jr " " " 

3574. Mary B. Fisher " " " 

3575. Janet R. Wilson " " " 

3576. Lizzie Miller (wid. Roswell C.) Dec. 5, 1897 

3577. Roberta F. Miller " " " 

3578. Mabel R. Miller " " " 

3579. Alice R. Fish " " " Dec. 14, 1898 

3580. Pamela W. Lyall " " " 

3581. Ada M. Bigelow (Mrs. Wm. J. Finch) Feb. 6, 1898 

3582. Menzies Macadam (Miss) " " " Feb. 13, 1898 

3583. Roderick A. Dorman " " " 

3584. Hamilton A. Gordon " " " 

325 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



3585. 
3586. 

3588. 
3589. 
3590. 
359I- 
3592. 
3593- 
3594- 
3595- 
3596. 
3597- 
3598. 
3599- 
3600. 
3601. 
3602. 
3603. 
3604. 
3605. 
3606. 
3607. 
3608. 
3609. 
3610. 
3611. 
3612. 
3613- 
3614. 

3 ^I- 
3616. 



3619. 
3620. 
3621. 
3622. 
3623. 
3624. 
3625. 



3632. 
3633. 
3634. 
3635. 
3636. 
3637. 
3638. 
3639- 



n Removed. 



April 12, 1899 



May . 



1900 



Name. When Received;. Wher 

Clarence T. Gordon Feb. i 

Charles E. Jefferson April 3, 1898 

Belle Jefferson (Charles E.) " " 

Mildred H. Fanning (Neuville, O.). " 

Margaret S. Stephens (Amos H.)... " 

William G. Martin " 

Alfred Martin " 

William J. Finch " 

Warren W. Ward " 

Alice G. Raymond " 

Alexander Frazer June 

Isabel A. Crosby (wid. Wellington) . " 

Herbert G. Wadhams " 

William R. Fearn " 

Doretta K. Fearn (William R.) " 

Evelyn Batchelder " 

Thomas Edward Barr " 

Hannah G. Barr (Thomas Edward) . " 

K. Beatrice Barr " 

James Surridge " 

Mary E. F. Smith (wid. Emory W.) . Oct. 

Thomas G. Barr " 

Walter B. Mahony " 

Philip W. Ayers " 

Margaret Parker " 

Pang Suey " 

Mark Thun " 

Hartwell S. Greene Dec. 

Lillian Cowles " 

Alice E. Sanborn " 

Amzi Lewis Camp " 

Antoinette Camp (Amzi Lewis) " 

Frederick Augustus Camp " 

Antoinette Louise Camp " 

Olinda Anne Camp " 

Kate Cristine Camp " 

Clara Matilda Camp " 

Charles C. Bailey " 

Charles W. Robinson " 

Sarah A. Robinson (Charles W.)... " 

Emma S. Warren " 

Mary F. Thompson " 

Charles C. Gates " 

Jennie McGee " 

Edward C. Warren " 

Elias Esber " 

Alice Longfellow Cilley (Mrs. Harry 

Hibbard Weist) " 

Flora A. Linnell Feb. 

Bessie Adams " 

Rebecca Knight " 

Charles B. Doolittle " 

Helene La Bonte " 

Isabel Somerville " 

Anna Dreadon McGonigle " 

Stefano L. Testa April 2, 1899 May 23, 1900 

326 



Sept. 13, 1899 



Chronological List of Members 

No Name. When Received. When Removed. 

3640. Fidelia C. Warner April 2, 1899 

3641. Sarah Hunt 

3642. Katharine H. Duncan " " " 

3643. Sarah May Tice " " " 

3644. Katherine Anna Ruehl 

3645. Adolphe Weber " 

3646. Frederick Phelps Porter " " " 

3647. Tom Sing " " " 

3648. Richard Tweedy " 

3649. Henry Edwards Wright " " ] 

3650. John R. Stewart " " 

3651. Amelia A. Stewart (John R.) " " " 

3652. William L. Ramsay June 4, 1899 

3653. Agnes D. Ramsay (William L.) " ' 

3654. John Munro " " " 

3655. Anna R. Munro (John) " " 

3656. Elizabeth S. Spring (wid. Marshall). " 

3657. Bertha R. Spring " " " 

3658. Julia E. Haven (wid. Carolus) " ' 

3659. Elizabeth Sanderson Haven " 

3660. Julia Haven 

3661. Benjamin W. Tice " " " 

3662. Mary E. Tice (Benjamin W.) " " " 

3663. J. Raymond Ellinwood " " 

3664. Channel P. Townsley " 

3665. Theodore Perrin " 

3666. Richard C. Rendell " " " 

3667. George W. Lock " " " 

3668. Lizette Herrmann " " " 

3669. Annie S. Joseph " " " 

3670. Sophia Benz " " " 

3671. William Wesley Carter " " " 

3672. Walter Palmer Anderton " " " 

3673. Florence McKesson Eckardt (Clar- 

ence W.) Oct. 1, 1899 

3674. William H. Rath " " " 

3675. Marian Folsom Rath (William H). " " " 

3676. Helen Isabel Matthew " " " 

3677. Mark Chung " " " 

3678. Estelle Hynes Warner (Franklin H.)Dec. 3, 1899 

3679. Kevoek Boyajian " " " 

3680. Jane Mathews (wid. John) " " " 

3681. Marion W. Mathews " " " 

3682. Grace C. Nelson (Frank G.) " " " 

3683. Elizabeth Richards " " " 

3684. Annie M. McEwan " " " 

3685. Jane P. McEwan " " " 

3686. Emily L. McEwan " " " 

3687. George N. Edwards " " " 

3688. Arthur J. Wyman " " " 

3689. Robert Roy McGeorge " " " 

3690. Thomas C. Ham " " " 

3691. Margaret S. Rehn (Frank K. M.)... " " " 

3692. Annie L. Partridge " " " 

3693. Katharine Richards " " " 

3694. Joseph H. CoMeld " " " 

327 



History of The Broadway Tabernacle Church 



No. Name. 

3695. Frank K. M. Rehn, Jr 

3696. Harriet Burhans " 

3697. Hedwig Liebl " 

3698. George H. Dunham Feb. 

3699. Julia E. Dunham (George H.) " 

3700. Margaret Young " 

3701. Harry Finch Howes " 

3702. John Soha " 

3703. T. Myrddin Jones " 

3704. Jennie Hartley Jones (T. Myrddin) . " 

3705. Ann Augusta Coit (Alonzo H.) " 

3706. Margaret Burnet Phelps (Dudley) . . " 

3707. Alice M. Dean " 

3708. Maud V. Gates " 

3709. Walter Richards Wheeler " 

3710. Joseph G. Coney April ; 

3711. Watson W. Hurlburt " ' 

3712. Mary L. Sproul " 

3713. Mary Agnes Teasdale " 

3714. Arthur C. Rowe " 

3715. Matilda A. Rowe (Arthur C.) " 

3716. Rufus H. Rowe " 

3717. Kenneth P. Rowe " 

3718. William L. Hope Simpson " 

3719. Lois M. Townsley (Channel P.) " 

3720. Maria L. Tompkins (wid. Jordan D.) " 

3721. Alfred W. Fisher " 

3722. Isabel Fisher (Alfred W.) " 

3723. Ella Cameron Lockerby " 

3724. Anna M. Lucken " 

3725. Rose Lynch " 

3726. Zurvina T. Gates {Royal A.) " 

3727. Herbert Mead " 

3728. Isabella O. Rough June , 

3729. Jessie Comfort " 

3730. George S. Johnson " 

3731. Mary J. Gordon " 

3732. Olga A. Helenius " 

3733- James Reid " 

3734. Thorn Quing Oct. 

3735- Tom Jen " 

3736. Anna E. Gainstrom " 

3737. Anna C. Mellick (wid. James B.)...Dec. : 

3738. Anna C. Mellick " 

3739- Henry S. Mellick " 

3740. Emily Herrmann " 

3741- Adele Hunter (Andrew) " 

3742. Charles R. Young " 

3743- Grant Stanley " 

3744- Elizabeth Wiggins ( Thomas) " 

3745. Louis R. Kaufman " 

3746. David H. Holmes " 

3747- Maud A. Holmes (David H.) " 

3748. William R. McFarland " 

3749- Elizabeth M. Harris " 

328 



1900 Nov. 7, 1900 





Additions. 


Removals. 


li 


DATE. 




1 


S 

IN 








H=J 


h 


^ 




11 




1 


1 


(2 


H 




R 




11 


s 


■3 




July 6,1840.. 


. 67 






67 
















67 


March 1, 1841. 


. 37 


























Feb. 28,1842.. 


. 87 


15 








7 












*8 




Feb. 27, 1843. 


. 63 


59 








33 












35 




Feb. 27. 1844. 


. 58 


37 






95 


29 












33 




Feb. 25, 1845. 


. 19 








36 


29 












32 


354 


Feb. 24,1846.. 


. 38 








46 


38 














360 


March 9, 1847. . 


. 36 






















44 




Feb. 29,1848.. 


. 23 


19 








32 


3 














Feb. 27,1849.. 


. 25 








37 


39 












46 




Feb. 26, 1850.. 




17 






39 














35 




Feb. 25,1851.. 
March i, 1852.. 


. 39 


5 






29 
63 


39 
78 


3 

7 


5 


" 2 






92 


391 
362 


March 1, 1853.. 


. 19 








34 




5 










70 


326 


Feb. 27,1854.. 


. 26 








26 




8 


14 








54 


298 


Feb. 27,1855-. 


. 15 


'0 




















50 




Feb. 26, 1856. . 










3i 


27 




6 










265 


Feb. 24,1857.. 










3S 






8 








33 


270 


March 1, 1858.. 


. 18 






















18 


274 


March 1, 1859.. 


. 60 










29 




5 








39 


336 


Feb. 28, i860. . 
Feb. 26, 1861 . . 


• 39 


S 






44 


3° 


3 


3 


* 






33 

33 


356 
367 


Feb. 26,1862.. 














7 










33 


448 


Feb. 24,1863.. 


•' 38 


16 






54 


3° 


5 










36 


466 


March i, 1864.. 


• 35 


28 






63 
















488 


Feb. 28,1865.. 


■ 39 








47 


32 


5 










38 


497 


Feb. 27, 1866. 


• 33 


13 






46 


29 


6 












508 


Feb. 26,1867.. 










5i 


31 












43 


5i6 


Feb. z8, 1868.. 
March 3, 1869. . 


. 38 
• 37 


23 






60 
60 


33 


8 




•; 










March 2, 1870.. 
March i, 1871.. 
Feb. 28, 1872. 
Dec. 31, 18721. 

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59 


37 


17 










54 


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" 1882.. 










57 














35 


1,054 


•■ " 1883.. 










61 














30 


1,085 


" " 1884.. 












32 












48 


1,119 


" " 1885.. 




J 9 






59 




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60 


1,118 


" 1886.. 










69 


24 












39 


1,148 


« " 1887.. 


• 38 
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33 






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74 


30 


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46 


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• 38 








63 




15 










55 




" " 1890.. 


• 35 


24 






59 


37 


15 










52 




« •• 1891.. 


. 26 


13 






39 














70 


1,189 


" " 1892.. 












34 


19 












1,148 


" 1893.. 










60 


64 


26 










90 


1,118 


" " 1894.. 












84 


29 T 






19 


6 


313 


851 13 


" 1895.. 




6 




48 




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65 


833 13 


" 1896.. 










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9 










127 


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- " 1897.. 




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53 


697 


" " 1898.. 








52 




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34 


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" " 1899.. 


• 47 








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14 


5 






38 




" 1900.. 


42 


10 


1 


S3 


31 


13 


2 




31 


77 


718 


1 Beginning Dec, 1872, 


tatistics are reported at end of calendar year. 2 Letter returned not used. 


3 go to Bethany Church. 


4 1 not previously reported. 6 not previously reported. 


• 5 not previously report 


d. T 15 not previously reported. 8 3 not previously reported, 
h. 10 I3 to Manhattan Church. 


» 66 to Manhattan Chur 


" On recount corrected 


n 1899 to 723. 12 On recount corrected in 1900 to 742. 


13 Records inco 


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329 



JUL 24 1901 



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